High-dose Sequential Chemoimmunotherapy for B-cell Lymphomas With Central Nervous System Involvement (SCNSL1)

Andrés José Maria Ferreri

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: B-cell Lymphomas

Treatments: Drug: High-dose sequential chemotherapy and autologous transplant

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT00801216

2006-006999-38 (EudraCT Number)

SCNSL1

Details and patient eligibility

About

This prospective trial will assess the activity and feasibility of a new high-dose methotrexate-based high-dose sequential chemotherapy combination in patients with B-cell lymphomas and CNS involvement at diagnosis or relapse. Selected drugs, with a well-documented anti-lymphoma activity, will be administered at high doses to increase blood-brain barrier penetration and CNS bioavailability as well as to reduce potential cross-resistance.

Full description

Patients with aggressive B-cell lymphoma and involvement of the central nervous system at diagnosis or relapse will be treated with a combination of high-dose methotrexate and high-dose cytarabine, rituximab, and intrathecal depocyte followed by rituximab-high-dose sequential chemotherapy supported by autologous tsem cell transplantation.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Histologically confirmed diagnosis of diffuse large-cell, follicular or mantle cell lymphoma
2. CNS involvement (brain, meninges, cranial nerves, eyes, and/or spinal cord) at diagnosis or relapse after conventional chemotherapy
3. Diagnosis of CNS involvement either by brain biopsy or CSF cytology examination. Neuroimaging alone is acceptable only when stereotactic biopsy is formally contraindicated.
4. Age 18-70 years
5. ECOG performance status 0-3
6. Adequate bone marrow (PLT > 100000 mm3, Hb > 9 g/dl, ANC > 2.000 mm3), renal (creatinine clearance > 60 mL/min), cardiac (VEF > 50%), and hepatic function (total serum bilirubin < 3 mg/dL, AST/ALT and gammaGT < 2.5 per upper normal limit value), within 1 week prior to study start (unless the abnormality is due to lymphoma involvement)
7. Absence of symptomatic coronary artery disease, cardiac arrhythmias not well controlled with medication or myocardial infarction within the last 6 months (New York Heart Association Class III or IV heart disease)
8. Absence of HIV infection
9. No previous or concurrent malignancies with the exception of surgically cured carcinoma in-situ of the cervix and carcinoma of the skin and of other cancers without evidence of disease at least from 5 years
10. Absence of any familial, sociological or geographical condition potentially hampering compliance with the study protocol and follow-up schedule
11. Female patients must be non-pregnant and non-lactating. Sexually active patients of childbearing potential must implement adequate contraceptive measures during study participation
12. No treatment with other experimental drugs within the 6 weeks previous to enrolment
13. Give written informed consent prior to any study specific procedures, with the understanding that the patient has the right to withdraw from the study at any time, without prejudice

Exclusion criteria

• NA

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 1 patient group

High-dose sequential chemoimmunotherapy

Experimental group

Description:

Two courses of methotrexate 3.5 g/mq day 1 and cytarabine 2 g/mq twice a day, for two days, Rituximab 375 mg/mq days 3 \& 11 and Intrathecal liposomal cytarabine 50 mg day 6(Phase I) followed in case of response by cyclophosphamide 7 g/mq plus Rituximab 375 mg/mq and Intrathecal liposomal cytarabine 50 mg Leukapheresis A and cryopreservation (Phase II), Cytarabine 2 g/mq twice a day for 4 days, Rituximab 375 mg/m2 and Reinfusion of stem cells (Phase III), etoposide 2 g/mq, Intrathecal liposomal cytarabine 50 mg (Phase IV) and high-dose Thiotepa-BCNU supported by autologous stem cell transplant (Phase V), and whole-brain radiotherapy in patients who do not achieve a complete remission after chemotherapy (Phase VI)

Treatment:

Drug: High-dose sequential chemotherapy and autologous transplant