Status:

COMPLETED

Study of Rituximab-HCVAD Alternating With Rituximab-Methotrexate-Cytarabine Versus Standard Rituximab-CHOP Every 21 Days for Patients With Newly Diagnosed High Risk Aggressive B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas in Patients 60 Years Old or Younger

Lead Sponsor:

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Collaborating Sponsors:

Genentech, Inc.

Conditions:

Lymphoma

Eligibility:

All Genders

16-60 years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

The overall goal of this clinical research study was to find out which of two different chemotherapy drug combinations, R-CHOP and R-HCVAD, is more effective in treating B-cell lymphoma. At this poin...

Detailed Description

This study originally involved 2 different study drug regimens, R-CHOP and R-HCVAD. R-CHOP is made up of rituximab, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisone, and is the most common treatment for ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Confirmed diagnosis of previously untreated large B-cell Non Hodgkin's, Large Cell Lymphoma and B-Cell with high grade features. Other aggressive lymphomas such as Primary Mediastinal large B-cell Lymphomas will be also allowed to be included.
  • Patients with performance status of 0-2 (Zubrod Scale).
  • Serum bilirubin \<1.5 mg/dl and serum creatinine \< 2.0 mg/dl unless due to lymphoma; absolute neutrophil count (ANC) \>1000/mm\^3 and platelets \>100,000/mm\^3 unless due to lymphoma.
  • Cardiac ejection fraction 50% or greater.
  • Ages 16 - 60 years (due to the fact that CHOP-R is not studied enough in younger patients and is not considered standard of care).
  • Patients must be willing to receive transfusions of blood products.
  • Age adjusted International Prognostic Index Score of 2 or more
  • Previous steroids are allowed (if used to relieve some symptoms such as SVC, etc).

Exclusion

  • Pregnancy (excluded due to the teratogenicity of the involved chemotherapy agents
  • Positive HIV serology because of poor tolerance to this intense chemotherapy regimen
  • Burkitt's lymphomas, and Mantle cell lymphoma, transformed follicular center cell lymphoma, follicular grade III.
  • Any clinical or cytological diagnosis of central nervous system (CNS) involvement
  • Any co-morbid medical, such as Child's Class C liver cirrhosis, end-stage renal disease, and symptomatic congestive heart failure, or psychiatric illnesses that preclude treatment with intense dose chemotherapy as determined by the primary investigator.
  • Concurrent or previous malignancy whose prognosis is poor (\< 90% probability of survival at 5 years)
  • Active Hepatitis B or C. Chronic carriers for Hepatitis B will be excluded.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

August 1 2005

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

August 11 2017

Estimated Enrollment :

67 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00290498

Start Date

August 1 2005

End Date

August 11 2017

Last Update

June 2 2020

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University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, United States, 77030