Rituximab, Vaccine Therapy, and GM-CSF in Treating Patients With Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

January 9, 2014 updated by: Favrille

Phase II Trial of Maintenance Rituximab Plus FavId® and GM-CSF Immunotherapy in Patients With Treatment-Naive Indolent B-Cell Lymphoma

RATIONALE: Monoclonal antibodies, such as rituximab, can block cancer growth in different ways. Some find cancer cells and kill them or carry cancer-killing substances to them. Others interfere with the ability of cancer cells to grow and spread. Vaccines made from a person's cancer cells may help the body build an effective immune response to kill cancer cells. Colony-stimulating factors, such as GM-CSF, may increase the number of immune cells found in bone marrow or peripheral blood. Giving rituximab together with vaccine therapy and GM-CSF may kill more cancer cells.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving rituximab together with vaccine therapy and GM-CSF works in treating patients with indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the efficacy of immunotherapy comprising rituximab, autologous immunoglobulin idiotype-KLH conjugate vaccine (FavId™), and sargramostim (GM-CSF), in terms of response rate (partial and complete) and event-free survival, in patients with indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  • Determine the safety of this regimen in these patients.
  • Evaluate development of an immune response in patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE: This is an open-label, multicenter study.

  • Induction therapy: Patients receive rituximab IV over 2-4 hours once weekly for 4 weeks. Patients are evaluated for response at month 3. Patients with responding or stable disease proceed to maintenance therapy. Patients with progressive disease are removed from study.
  • Maintenance therapy: Patients receive rituximab as in induction therapy in months 7, 13, and 19. Patients also receive autologous immunoglobulin idiotype-KLH conjugate vaccine (FavId™) subcutaneously (SC) once on day 1 and sargramostim (GM-CSF) SC once daily on days 1-4 in months 4-6, 8-11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, and 24. Patients with continued response after completing 2 years of therapy may continue to receive FavId™ and GM-CSF once every 3 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed periodically.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 56 patients will be accrued for this study.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

56

Phase

  • Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Tennessee
      • Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203
        • Recruiting
        • Sarah Cannon Cancer Center at Centennial Medical Center
        • Contact:
          • Clinical Trials Office - Sarah Cannon Cancer Center at Centenn
          • Phone Number: 615-329-7274

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically confirmed indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of 1 of the following subtypes:

    • Grade 1 or 2 follicular lymphoma
  • Tumor must be accessible to biopsy or biopsy material available for preparation of autologous immunoglobulin idiotype-KLH conjugate vaccine (FavId™)
  • Measurable or evaluable disease after node biopsy
  • No mantle cell, marginal zone, MALT-type, small lymphocytic, or grade 3 follicular (follicular large cell) lymphoma
  • No CNS involvement with lymphoma

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Performance status

  • ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • Platelet count > 100,000/mm^3
  • WBC ≥ 3,000/mm^3

Hepatic

  • AST and ALT ≤ 2 times upper limit of normal
  • Bilirubin ≤ 2 mg/dL

Renal

  • Creatinine ≤ 1.5 mg/dL

Other

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 30 days after completion of study treatment
  • HIV negative
  • No other medical or psychiatric disease that would preclude study compliance
  • No other malignancy (active or treated) within the past 5 years

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Radiotherapy

  • Prior local radiotherapy allowed

Other

  • No other prior anticancer therapy

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Event-free survival by Kaplan-Meier

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Safety
Duration of response
Overall response rate (partial and complete response) at month 6 and any time
Time-to-progression by Kaplan-Meier
Immune response by cellular or humoral anti-idiotype response positive

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Favrille

Investigators

  • Study Chair: John F. Bender, PharmD, Favrille

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

August 1, 2004

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

November 1, 2009

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

November 22, 2005

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 22, 2005

First Posted (Estimate)

November 24, 2005

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

January 10, 2014

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 9, 2014

Last Verified

August 1, 2008

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • CDR0000449719
  • FAV-ID-70
  • FAV-ID-LYM-31

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