Isatuximab, Lenalidomide, Bortezomib, and Dexamethasone in NDMM

Phase 2, Multi-Center, Single-Arm, Open-Label Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of the Combination Regimen Isatuximab, Lenalidomide, Bortezomib, and Dexamethasone in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma

This research is testing whether the investigational drug isatuximab is safe and effective when used in combination with standard agents for the treatment of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Study Overview

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Conditions: Multiple Myeloma; Autologous Stem Cell Transplant; Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma (NDMM)
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Isatuximab; Drug: Lenalidomide; Drug: Bortezomib Injection; Drug: Dexamethasone

Detailed Description

This is a multi-center, single-arm, open-label, Phase 2 study in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) eligible for high dose therapy (HDT) and autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT).

In this research study, investigators are evaluating whether isatuximab is safe and effective in participants with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma when given in combination with lenalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethsone.

• This research study involves administration of a four-drug chemotherapy regimen that combines the Investigational drug isatuximab with a standard chemotherapy regimen comprised of lenalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone.
• This 4-drug regimen is not considered standard of the treatment of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

This research study is a Phase II clinical trial. Phase II clinical trials test the safety and effectiveness of an investigational drug or combination of drugs to learn whether the drug works in treating a specific disease. "Investigational" means that the drug is being studied.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved lenalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone as treatment options for this disease but the combination of these agents with isatuximab hasn't been approved.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 52
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
      • Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 75 years and older (Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Previously diagnosed with MM based on standard IMWG criteria and currently requires treatment.
• Provided voluntary written informed consent before performance of any study-related procedures not part of normal medical care, with the understanding that consent may be withdrawn by the patient at any time without prejudice to their future medical care
• Age ≤ 75 years, with patients over the age of 70 requiring PI approval

• Measurable disease defined as at least one of the following:

  • Serum M protein ≥ 0.5 g/dL (≥5 g/L)
  • Urine M protein ≥ 200 mg/24 hours
  • Serum free light chain (FLC) assay: Involved FLC assay ≥10 mg/dL (≥100 mg/L) and an abnormal serum FLC ratio (<0.26 or >1.65)

• Screening Laboratory evaluations within the following parameters

  • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1,000 cells/dL (1.0 x 109/L) (Growth factors cannot be used within 14 days before first drug administration)
  • Platelet count ≥ 75,000 cells/dL (75 x 109/L) if < 50% BM nucleated cells are plasma cells, ≥ 30,000 cells/dL if ≥ 50% of BM nucleated cells are plasma cells. (without transfusions required during the 3 days prior to the screening hematologic test)
  • Total Bilirubin ≤ 2.0 X upper limit of normal (ULN) (except patients with Gilbert Syndrome, who can have total bilirubin < 3.0 mg/dL)
  • AST (SGOT) and ALT (SGPT) ≤ 3.0 x ULN
  • Calculated creatinine clearance ≥ 30 mL/min
  • Hemoglobin ≤ 8 g/dL
• ECOG performance status ≤ 2 (Appendix A)
• Participant agrees to be registered into the mandatory Revassist REMS® program, and be willing and able to comply with the requirements of the RevAssist REMS® program.
• Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document
• Participant is considered eligible for ASCT by the treating physician.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Prior therapy for multiple myeloma
• Diagnosed or treated for another malignancy within 3 years prior to enrollment, with the exception of complete resection of basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, an in-situ malignancy, or low risk prostate cancer after curative therapy.
• Central nervous system involvement.
• Peripheral neuropathy ≥ Grade 3, or Grade 2 with pain on clinical examination during the screening period.
• Any medical or psychiatric illness that in the Investigator's opinion, would impose excessive risk to the patient or would adversely affect his/her participating in this study.
• Concurrent uncontrolled cardiovascular conditions, including uncontrolled hypertension, uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmias, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina, Grade 3 thromboembolic event or myocardial infarction within the past 6 months.
• Prior major surgical procedure or radiation therapy within 4 weeks of initiation of therapy (this does not include limited course of radiation used for management of bone pain within 7 days of initiation of therapy).
• Daily requirement for corticosteroids (equivalent to > 10 mg/day prednisone for more than 7 days (except for inhalation corticosteroids).
• Concurrent symptomatic amyloidosis or plasma cell leukemia
• POEMS syndrome (plasma cell dyscrasia with polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal protein and skin changes)
• Known active infection requiring parenteral or oral anti-infective treatment within 14 days of start of therapy.
• Active hepatitis B or hepatitis C viral infection
• Pregnant or breastfeeding female or female who intends to become pregnant during the participation in the study. Females of childbearing potential (FCBP) unwilling to prevent pregnancy by the use of 2 reliable methods of contraception for ≥4 weeks before the start of study treatment, during treatment (including dose interruptions), and up to 3 months following the last dose of study treatment and/or who are unwilling or unable to be tested for pregnancy before study treatment initiation (2 negative tests), weekly during 1st month of treatment and then prior each treatment cycle administration or every 2 weeks in case or irregular menstrual cycles up to 3 months following the last dose of study treatment.

• Male participants who disagree to practice true abstinence or disagree to use a condom during sexual contact with a pregnant female or a FCBP while participating in the study, during dose interruptions and at least 3 months following study treatment discontinuation, even if has undergone a successful vasectomy.

  • Note 1: a FCBP is a female who: 1) has achieved menarche at some time point, 2) has not undergone a hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy or 3) has not been naturally postmenopausal (amenorrhea following cancer therapy does not rule out childbearing potential) for at least 24 consecutive months (ie, has had menses at any time in the preceding 24 consecutive months).
  • Note 2: True abstinence is acceptable when this is in line with the preferred and usual lifestyle of the patient. Periodic abstinence (eg, calendar, ovulation, symptothermal, post-ovulation methods) and withdrawal are not acceptable methods of contraception.
• Receiving any other investigational agents
• Inability to tolerate thromboprophylaxis
• Hypersensitivity (or contraindication) to dexamethasone, sucrose histidine (as base and hydrochloride salt), boron, mannitol, and polysorbate 80, or to any of the components of the study therapy
• Hypersensitivity to steroids or H2 blockers that would prohibit further treatment with these agents.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: Isa-RVD; The main study consists of 4 phases a) 28-day screening phase; b) an induction phase inclusive of two 42-day induction treatment cycles: Isatuximab (IV), Bortezomib (SQ). Lenalidomide (PO), Dexamethasone; c) Followed by stem cell mobilization (at the discretion of the Principal Investigator [PI]);d) Participants will proceed with either autologous stem cell transplant or two additional induction cycles. - Induction will be followed by a maintenance phase that continues until disease progression.

Drug: Isatuximab; Via IV at predetermined dosage and predetermined days during each cycle; Other Names: Sarclisa; Drug: Lenalidomide; Oral, predetermined dosage and predetermined days during each cycle; Other Names: Revlimid; Drug: Bortezomib Injection; SQ Oral, predetermined dosage and predetermined days during each cycle; Drug: Dexamethasone; IV or Oral predetermined dosage and predetermined days during each cycle

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Very Good Partial Response (VGPR)	proportion of patients who have achieved VGPR or better, according to International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) criteria (Kumar 2016), by the end of two cycles of induction treatment	84 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
stringent Complete Response (sCR)	proportion of patients who have achieved sCR, according to IMWG criteria, by the end of two cycles of induction treatment. Response will be evaluated using a Simon optimal two-stage design.	84 days
Time to Progression	Progression-free probabilities over time will be estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method (Kaplan, 1958), presenting an estimate of median time to progression (TTP) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Time to progression is defined as time from registration to progression, censored at date last known to be progression-free for those who have not progressed and censored at time of death for those who died.	time from registration to progression, censored at date last known to be progression-free for those who have not progressed and censored at time of death up to 42 months
Progression Free Survival	- Progression-free survival (PFS) will be analyzed similarly to time to progression: Progression-free probabilities over time will be estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method (Kaplan, 1958), presenting an estimate of median Time to progression (TTP) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs Time from registration to disease progression or death from any cause, censored at date last known to be progression-free for those who have not progressed or died	time from registration to disease progression or death from any cause, censored at date last known to be progression-free for those who have not progressed or died up to 42 months
Duration of Response	Duration of Response will be analyzed similarly to time to progression: Progression-free probabilities over time will be estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method (Kaplan, 1958), presenting an estimate of median time to progression (TTP) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs Time from first response after treatment to the date of disease progression or death from any cause, or date last known progression-free and alive for those who have not progressed or died.	Time from first response after treatment to the date of disease progression or death from any cause, or date last known progression-free and alive for those who have not progressed or died up to 42 months
Overall Survival	Overall Survival will be analyzed similarly to time to progression: Progression-free probabilities over time will be estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method (Kaplan, 1958), presenting an estimate of median time to progression (TTP) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs Overall survival: time from registration to death from any cause or date last known alive for those who have not died	Overall survival: time from registration to death from any cause or date last known alive for those who have not died up to 42 months
Number of Participants with Treatment Related Adverse Events as Assessed by CTCAE v 5.0	Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) v5.0	Induction to up to 3.5 years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Jacob Laubach, MD
• Collaborators: Sanofi
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Jacob C Laubach, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 13, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 15, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): January 13, 2029

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 27, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 27, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): December 4, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 30, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 27, 2026
• Last Verified: April 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Multiple Myeloma; Newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM); Autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT).; High dose therapy (HDT)
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Vascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases; Neoplasms; Immune System Diseases; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Hematologic Diseases; Lymphoproliferative Disorders; Immunoproliferative Disorders; Neoplasms, Plasma Cell; Hemostatic Disorders; Paraproteinemias; Blood Protein Disorders; Hemorrhagic Disorders; Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases; Multiple Myeloma; Organic Chemicals; Heterocyclic Compounds, 1-Ring; Heterocyclic Compounds; Heterocyclic Compounds, 2-Ring; Heterocyclic Compounds, Fused-Ring; Carboxylic Acids; Polycyclic Compounds; Piperidines; Inorganic Chemicals; Pregnadienes; Pregnanes; Steroids; Fused-Ring Compounds; Steroids, Fluorinated; Pregnadienetriols; Boronic Acids; Acids, Noncarboxylic; Acids; Boron Compounds; Pyrazines; Phthalimides; Phthalic Acids; Acids, Carbocyclic; Piperidones; Isoindoles; Lenalidomide; Bortezomib; Dexamethasone; isatuximab
• Other Study ID Numbers: 20-207

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: The Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center encourages and supports the responsible and ethical sharing of data from clinical trials. De-identified participant data from the final research dataset used in the published manuscript may only be shared under the terms of a Data Use Agreement. Requests may be directed to Sponsor Investigator or designee. The protocol and statistical analysis plan will be made available on Clinicaltrials.gov only as required by federal regulation or as a condition of awards and agreements supporting the research.
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: Data can be shared no earlier than 1 year following the date of publication
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: Contact the Belfer Office for Dana-Farber Innovations (BODFI) at innovation@dfci.harvard.edu
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL; SAP; ICF

Drug and device information, study documents

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