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Registration number
NCT00005589
Ethics application status
Date submitted
2/05/2000
Date registered
27/01/2003
Date last updated
17/09/2013

Titles & IDs
Public title
Combination Chemotherapy Plus Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation With or Without Rituximab in Treating Patients With Relapsed Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Scientific title
Randomized Study of Rituximab (Mabthera) in Patients With Relapsed Follicular Lymphoma Prior to High-Dose Therapy as In Vivo Purging and to Maintain Remission Following High-Dose Therapy
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
EBMT-EBMTLYM1
Secondary ID [2] 0 0
CDR0000067665
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Lymphoma 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Lymphoma (non Hodgkin's lymphoma) - High grade lymphoma
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Lymphoma (non Hodgkin's lymphoma) - Low grade lymphoma

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
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Time to disease progression
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Secondary outcome [1] 0 0
Response rate and survival
Timepoint [1] 0 0
Secondary outcome [2] 0 0
Molecular remission rates
Timepoint [2] 0 0
Secondary outcome [3] 0 0
Safety
Timepoint [3] 0 0

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Relapsed or resistant follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL)

* No evidence of transformation to high grade or diffuse large B-cell NHL
* CD20 positive with no evidence of transformation
* Achievement of complete remission (CR) or very good partial remission (VGPR) following reinduction chemotherapy with any standard regimen

* Includes patients who fail to respond to first-line chemotherapy but who achieve CR or VGPR after proceeding directly to second-line chemotherapy
* Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm^3 after induction chemotherapy and before randomization
* No CNS involvement

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

* 18 and over

Performance status:

* WHO 0-1

Life expectancy:

* Not specified

Hematopoietic:

* See Disease Characteristics

Hepatic:

* Bilirubin normal
* ALT no greater than 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
* Alkaline phosphatase no greater than 2 times ULN
* Hepatitis B negative
* Hepatitis C negative

Renal:

* Creatinine no greater than 2 times ULN
* BUN no greater than 2 times ULN

Cardiovascular:

* No inadequate cardiac function

Pulmonary:

* No inadequate pulmonary function

Other:

* Not pregnant or nursing
* HIV negative
* No other uncontrolled serious medical conditions
* No other malignancy within the past 5 years except nonmelanoma skin tumors or carcinoma in situ of the cervix

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

* More than 12 months since prior CD20 therapy, including rituximab
* No prior peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

Chemotherapy:

* See Disease Characteristics
* No more than 3 prior chemotherapy regimens for NHL

Endocrine therapy:

* Not specified

Radiotherapy:

* No prior radiotherapy to greater than 30% of bone marrow

Surgery:

* Not specified
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria

Study design
Purpose of the study
Treatment
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Open (masking not used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Other design features
Phase
Phase 3
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Completed
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
1/10/1999
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
1/04/2013
Sample size
Target
460
Accrual to date
Final
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
NSW,QLD,SA,VIC,WA
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Sydney Cancer Centre at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital - Sydney
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Westmead Institute for Cancer Research at Westmead Hospital - Westmead
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Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital - Brisbane
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Royal Adelaide Hospital Cancer Centre - Adelaide
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital - Woodville
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Royal Melbourne Hospital - Parkville
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Fremantle Hospital - Fremantle
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Royal Perth Hospital - Perth
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2050 - Sydney
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2145 - Westmead
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4029 - Brisbane
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5000 - Adelaide
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5011 - Woodville
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3050 - Parkville
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6160 - Fremantle
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6000 - Perth
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Vienna
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Aalborg
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Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Other
Name
EBMT Solid Tumors Working Party
Address
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Other
Name [1] 0 0
Lymphoma Trials Office
Address [1] 0 0
Country [1] 0 0

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Peripheral stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more cancer cells. Monoclonal antibodies such as rituximab can locate cancer cells and either kill them or deliver cancer-killing substances to them without harming normal cells. It is not yet known if combination chemotherapy plus peripheral stem cell transplantation is more effective with or without rituximab for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying giving combination chemotherapy and peripheral stem cell transplantation together with rituximab to see how well it works compared to combination chemotherapy and peripheral stem cell transplantation alone in treating patients with relapsed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00005589
Trial related presentations / publications
Pettengell R, Schmitz N, Gisselbrecht C, Smith G, Patton WN, Metzner B, Caballero D, Tilly H, Walewski JA, Bence-Bruckler I, To B, Geisler CH, Schots R, Kimby E, Taverna CJ, Kozak T, Dreger P, Uddin R, Ruiz de Elvira C, Goldstone AH. Rituximab purging and/or maintenance in patients undergoing autologous transplantation for relapsed follicular lymphoma: a prospective randomized trial from the lymphoma working party of the European group for blood and marrow transplantation. J Clin Oncol. 2013 May 1;31(13):1624-30. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2012.47.1862. Epub 2013 Apr 1.
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
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Ruth Pettengell, MD
Address 0 0
St George's, University of London
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Contact person for public queries
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Contact person for scientific queries



Summary Results

For IPD and results data, please see https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00005589