Effect of Blinatumomab on Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) Subjects Post Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (aHSCT)

A Phase 2 Open-Label Study to Determine the Effect of Blinatumomab on Minimal Residual Disease in Subjects With High-risk Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma Post-autologous Hematopoietic Stem-cell Transplantation.

The study will estimate the MRD-negative response rate after treatment with blinatumomab in subjects with high-risk DLBCL who are MRD-positive following aHSCT. The clinical hypothesis is that the MRD-negative response rate will be greater than 10%. Achieving an MRD-negative response rate of 30% would be of scientific and clinical interest.

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: High-risk Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Blinatumomab

Detailed Description

This is a phase 2, multicenter, open-label, single arm estimation study in adult subjects with high-risk DLBCL in complete remission. The study will consist of up to a 28-day screening period, a run-in period of up to 24 months, a 12-week treatment period (8 weeks of blinatumomab treatment followed by a 4-week treatment free period), a 30-day safety follow-up visit after the last dose of blinatumomab, and a long-term follow-up period that begins after the safety follow-up visit is completed until 1 year from the first dose of blinatumomab. The study will enroll approximately 90 subjects in the screening period with biopsy proven, high-risk DLBCL that are positron emission tomography-computer tomography (PET-CT) negative 90 days (± 30 days) post aHSCT. During the run-in period subjects will be followed by clinic visits at regular interval for up to 24 months for monitoring of MRD status in plasma by a next generation sequencing (NGS)-based assay. It is estimated 30 subjects will be either MRD-positive at screening or become MRD-positive during the 24-month run-in period. The number of subjects enrolled may be altered in order to ensure that approximately 30 subjects are assigned to treatment with blinatumomab. Enrollment may be stopped, once approximately 30 subjects have been assigned to treatment with blinatumomab.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 10
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Australia
  • New South Wales
    • St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia, 2065
      • Research Site
    • Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, 2145
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  • Victoria
    • Clayton, Victoria, Australia, 3168
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    • Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 3220
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• Belgium
  • Charleroi, Belgium, 6000
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  • Leuven, Belgium, 3000
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  • Liege, Belgium, 4000
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• France
  • Créteil Cedex, France, 94010
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  • Lille, France, 59037
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  • Marseille, France, 13009
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  • Montpellier cedex 5, France, 34295
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  • Paris Cedex 10, France, 75475
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  • Pessac Cedex, France, 33604
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  • Pierre Benite Cedex, France, 69495
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  • Rouen, France, 76038
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• Greece
  • Athens, Greece, 11527
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  • Athens, Greece, 10676
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  • Thessaloniki, Greece, 57010
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• Italy
  • Bergamo, Italy, 24127
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  • Brescia, Italy, 25123
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  • Firenze, Italy, 50134
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  • Milano, Italy, 20162
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  • Palermo, Italy, 90146
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  • Torino, Italy, 10126
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• Switzerland
  • Bellinzona, Switzerland, 6500
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  • Bern, Switzerland, 3010
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  • Lausanne, Switzerland, 1011
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  • Zurich, Switzerland, 8091
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• United States
  • Georgia
    • Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30342
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  • Illinois
    • Maywood, Illinois, United States, 60153
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  • Ohio
    • Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195
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  • Texas
    • Dallas, Texas, United States, 75246
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Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 100 years (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria - Part 1

Inclusion Criteria - Part 1

• Subject has provided informed consent prior to initiation of any study-specific activities/procedures or subject's legally acceptable representative has provided informed consent prior to any study-specific activities/procedures being initiated when the subject has any kind of condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, may compromise the ability of the subject to give written informed consent.
• Age ≥ 18 at time of informed consent
• Biopsy-proven DLBCL excluding DLBCL that represents transformation of indolent non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) Note: Lymphoblastic Lymphoma and Burkitt Lymphoma histology are not eligible

• Subject has ≥ 1 characteristic feature of high-risk DLBCL:

  • High-risk first complete remission (defined as interim positron emission tomography - computed tomography (PET-CT) positive or < complete remission to frontline chemotherapy AND achieved complete remission to platinum-containing salvage)
  • Relapse within 1 year of diagnosis
  • Secondary age-adjusted international prognostic index > 1
  • Partial response/partial metabolic response after minimum of 2 cycles of platinum-containing salvage chemotherapy
  • C-myc rearrangement
• aHSCT with high-dose chemotherapy following first (or later) salvage treatment.
• PET-CT negative (Deauville score ≤ 3) 90 days (± 30 days) post aHSCT
• Available relapsed and/or diagnostic pathology formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tumor block or slide samples at the time of enrollment including the successful identification of malignant clone sequences by the central laboratory.
• MRD plasma sample collected ≤ 3 weeks after the post aHSCT PET-CT scan
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status ≤ 2.

• Adequate organ function determined ≤ 3 weeks prior to enrollment defined as follows:

  • Hematological:

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.0 x 109/L Platelet count ≥ 75 x 109/L Hemoglobin ≥ 8 g/dL

• Renal:

Creatinine clearance ≥ 50 mL/min Cockcroft-Gault equation

• Hepatic:

Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) < 3 x upper limit of normal (ULN) Total bilirubin < 2 x ULN (unless Gilbert's Disease or if liver involvement with lymphoma)

• Subject will be available to complete all protocol-required study visits or procedures, and/or to comply with all required study procedures to the best of the subject's and investigator's knowledge including but not limited to:
• Completion of up to a 24-month run-in period

• Completion of all regularly scheduled study visits including blood draws for MRD assessment, clinical disease state assessment, PET-CT scans (ie, at time of MRD positivity or relapse), assignment to treatment with blinatumomab

  • Other Inclusion criteria may apply. See "Inclusion and Exclusion criteria - Part 2".

Exclusion Criteria - Part 1

• Clinically relevant central nervous system (CNS) pathology such as epilepsy, seizure, paresis, aphasia,stroke, severe brain injury, dementia, Parkinson's disease, cerebellar disease, organic brain syndrome, and psychosis
• Evidence of CNS involvement with DLBCL at disease evaluation obtained prior to starting blinatumomab
• Current autoimmune disease or history of autoimmune disease with potential of CNS involvement
• Prior anti-CD19 directed therapies
• Prior alloHSCT
• Received radiation ≤ 2 weeks prior to enrollment
• Infection with human immunodeficiency virus or chronic infection with hepatitis B virus (hepatitis B surface antigen positive) or hepatitis C virus (anti-hepatitis C virus positive)

• History of malignancy other than DLBCL within the past 3 years with the following exceptions:

  • Malignancy treated with curative intent and with no known active disease present for ≥ 3 years before enrollment and felt to be at low risk for recurrence by the treating physician
  • Adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer or lentigo maligna without evidence of disease
  • Adequately treated cervical carcinoma in situ without evidence of disease
  • Adequately treated breast ductal carcinoma in situ without evidence of disease
  • Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia without evidence of prostate cancer
  • Adequately treated urothelial papillary noninvasive carcinoma or carcinoma in situ
• Subject has known hypersensitivity to immunoglobulins or any of the products or components to be administered during dosing.
• History or evidence of any other clinically significant disorder, condition or disease (with the exception of those outlined above) that, in the opinion of the investigator or Amgen physician, if consulted, would pose a risk to subject safety or interfere with the study evaluation, procedures or completion.
• Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding or planning to become pregnant or breastfeed while receiving blinatumomab and for an additional 48 hours after the last treatment dose of blinatumomab. (Females of child bearing potential should only be included after a negative highly sensitive urine or serum pregnancy test.)
• Women of childbearing potential unwilling to use an acceptable method of effective contraception while receiving blinatumomab and for an additional 48 hours after last dose of blinatumomab. Note: The pregnancy, breastfeeding and contraceptive requirements are specific to blinatumomab. The investigator is responsible for providing the subject (male and female) with pregnancy and breastfeeding (female only) avoidance requirements for other medications given during the study.

• Currently receiving treatment in another investigational device or drug study or less than 30 days since ending treatment on another investigational device or drug study. Other investigational procedures while participating in this study are excluded.

  • Other Exclusion criteria may apply. See "Inclusion and Exclusion criteria - Part 2".

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria - Part 2

Inclusion Criteria - Part 2

• MRD-positive assessment (by NGS analysis) at enrollment or at any time during the run-in 1 period
• PET-CT negative (defined by Deauville criteria ≤ 3) at run-in 2 performed ≤ 3 weeks from MRD test result available to the site at run-in 1. Historical PET-CT are allowed if performed ≤ 6 weeks from day 1 (first dose of blinatumomab) and subject has no clinical signs or symptoms suggestive of disease progression (eg, increase in lactate dehydrogenase [LDH] not otherwise explained)

• Adequate organ function determined ≤ 7 days prior to treatment assignment with blinatumomab as follows:

  • Hematological:

ANC ≥ 1.0 x 109/L Hemoglobin ≥ 8 g/L Platelet count ≥ 75 x 109/L

• Renal:

Creatinine clearance ≥ 50 mL/min Cockcroft-Gault equation

• Hepatic:

AST and ALT < 3 x ULN Total bilirubin < 2 x ULN (unless Gilbert's Disease or if liver involvement with lymphoma)

Exclusion Criteria - Part 2

• Subject has active infection requiring systemic therapy
• Any change in the part 1 eligibility criteria during the run-in period.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
• Allocation: NA
• Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

EXPERIMENTAL: Blinatumomab; After a run-in period of up to 24 months to evaluate MRD status and assess eligibility for treatment assignment, participants received blinatumomab intravenous (IV) infusion at an initial dose of 9 μg/day for the first 7 days of treatment, escalated (dose-step) to 28 μg/day starting on Day 8 (Week 2), followed by a dose-step to 112 μg/day starting on Day 15 (Week 3) and continuing until completion of therapy (Day 57 of Cycle 1). Cycle 1 of blinatumomab treatment is 12 weeks (84 days) in duration and includes 8 weeks (56 days) of blinatumomab IV infusion followed by a 4-week (28-day) treatment-free interval.

Drug: Blinatumomab; Blinatumomab is administered as a continuous IV infusion.; Other Names: AMG 103; BLINCYTO

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
MRD-Negative Rate at the End of Cycle 1	The estimated MRD-negative rate, calculated as the percentage of participants with MRD-negative status after treatment with blinatumomab. MRD-negative status was assessed by positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) or computed tomography (CT).	12 weeks (84 days)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Kaplan-Meier Estimate: Progression-Free Survival (PFS)	PFS, calculated as the time from the date of first dose of blinatumomab until the date of diagnosis of relapse of lymphoma (by PET-CT, CT, clinical assessment or relapse biopsy, whichever was the preferred method), or date of death, whichever was earliest. Participants who were alive and who did not have progression or new anti-tumor treatment (excluding any stem cell transplantation) were to be censored at last date of tumor assessment.	up to 1 year from first dose of blinatumomab
Kaplan-Meier Estimate: Duration of MRD-Negative Status	The duration of MRD-negative status, assessed only in participants who achieve MRD-negative status after blinatumomab treatment, was defined as the time when a negative MRD result was first established until documented MRD-positive re-occurrence, disease progression or, death due to any cause. Participants without any of these events at the time of the analysis were to be censored at their last disease assessment date. MRD-negative status was assessed by PET-CT or CT.	up to 1 year from first dose of blinatumomab
Kaplan-Meier Estimate: Overall Survival (OS)	OS, defined as time from the first dose of blinatumomab treatment until death due to any cause. Participants still alive at the time of the analysis were censored at date last known to be alive.	up to 1 year from first dose of blinatumomab
Number of Participants With Treatment Emergent Adverse Events (TEAEs)	An adverse event (AE) is defined as any untoward medical occurrence. A serious AE is defined as an AE that is: fatal; life threatening; requires in-patient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization; results in persistent or significant disability/incapacity; a congenital anomaly/birth defect; other medically important serious event. TEAEs are events with an onset after the administration of the first dose of blinatumomab treatment through 30 days after the end of blinatumomab treatment. Events were graded according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE): Grade 1 (mild), Grade 2 (moderate), Grade 3 (severe), Grade 4 (life-threatening), Grade 5 (death).	From first dose of study drug through 30 days after the last dose of study drug. The treatment duration for the participant who received blinatumomab was 57 days.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Amgen

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• AmgenTrials clinical trials website

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): May 23, 2018
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): September 30, 2019
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): September 30, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 12, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 26, 2017
• First Posted (ACTUAL): October 2, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): September 11, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 10, 2020
• Last Verified: September 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Immune System Diseases; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Lymphoproliferative Disorders; Lymphatic Diseases; Immunoproliferative Disorders; Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin; Neoplastic Processes; Lymphoma; Lymphoma, B-Cell; Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse; Neoplasm, Residual; Antineoplastic Agents; Blinatumomab
• Other Study ID Numbers: 20150291; 2016-003255-30 (EUDRACT_NUMBER)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: De-identified individual patient data for variables necessary to address the specific research question in an approved data sharing request
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: Data sharing requests relating to this study will be considered beginning 18 months after the study has ended and either 1) the product and indication (or other new use) have been granted marketing authorization in both the US and Europe or 2) clinical development for the product and/or indication discontinues and the data will not be submitted to regulatory authorities. There is no end date for eligibility to submit a data sharing request for this study.
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: Qualified researchers may submit a request containing the research objectives, the Amgen product(s) and Amgen study/studies in scope, endpoints/outcomes of interest, statistical analysis plan, data requirements, publication plan, and qualifications of the researcher(s). In general, Amgen does not grant external requests for individual patient data for the purpose of re-evaluating safety and efficacy issues already addressed in the product labelling. Requests are reviewed by a committee of internal advisors, and if not approved, may be further arbitrated by a Data Sharing Independent Review Panel. Upon approval, information necessary to address the research question will be provided under the terms of a data sharing agreement. This may include anonymized individual patient data and/or available supporting documents, containing fragments of analysis code where provided in analysis specifications. Further details are available at the link below.
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL; SAP; ICF; CSR

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No