Pembrolizumab After ASCT for Hodgkin Lymphoma, DLBCL and T-NHL

NCT02362997 | Completed Phase 2 Results DMC

• 1 other identifier: 14-566
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 82
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 6

Brief Summary

This phase II study is designed to determine the clinical efficacy of PD-1 blockade, using the anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody pembrolizumab (MK-3475), administered as consolidation therapy after autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT), in patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL), classical Hodgkin Lymphoma (cHL) or peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) in 1st remission.

Conditions

Hodgkin Lymphoma; Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma; Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma

Keywords

Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma (cHL); Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL); Peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL)

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Progression-free Survival After ASCT

  Proportion of patients alive and disease-free 18 months from autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). Progression criteria are per Lugano 2014 criteria. All patients receiving any amount of protocol treatment. Patients who have progressed or lost to follow-up prior to 18 months are counted as failures; only patients followed and progression-free for at least 18 months are counted as successes.

  18 Months

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Overall Survival

  18 Months

• Relapse

  18 Months

• Safety and Tolerability Assessed by CTCAE v4 Grade 2 and Above Toxicity Related to Study Treatment

  6 months

• Response Rate to Pembrolizumab

  18 months

• Progression-free Survival

  18 months

Other Outcomes (4)

• Overall Survival After ASCT by PET Status

  18 months

• Progression-free Survival After ASCT by PET Status

  18 months

• Completion Rate

  18 months

Study Arms (3)

Diffuse large B cell lymphoma

EXPERIMENTAL

Pembrolizumab 200mg IV every 3 weeks up to 8 cycles

Drug: Pembrolizumab

Classical Hodgkin lymphoma

EXPERIMENTAL

Pembrolizumab 200mg IV every 3 weeks up to 8 cycles

Drug: Pembrolizumab

Peripheral T cell lymphoma

EXPERIMENTAL

Pembrolizumab 200mg IV every 3 weeks up to 8 cycles

Drug: Pembrolizumab

Interventions

Pembrolizumab DRUG

Anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody

Also known as: Keytruda, MK-3475, SCH 900475

Classical Hodgkin lymphoma; Diffuse large B cell lymphoma; Peripheral T cell lymphoma

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Histologically confirmed diagnosis with review of the diagnostic pathology specimen at one of the participating institutions. Eligible histologies are: Arm A: Diffuse large B cell lymphoma; patients with a prior history of indolent B-cell NHL are eligible, as long as they have histologically confirmed DLBCL prior to their pre-transplant salvage treatment. Patients with mediastinal large B cell lymphoma are also eligible.
• Arm B: Classical Hodgkin lymphoma (patients with nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma \[NLPHL\] are NOT eligible) Arm C: Peripheral T cell lymphoma - eligible subtypes will include PTCL, NOS; AITL; and ALK-negative ALCL. Patients with other PTCL histologies, including ALK-positive PTCL, and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma will not be eligible..
• Age ≥ 18 at the time of enrollment.
• For arms A and B, participants must have relapsed after or been refractory to first-line chemotherapy, i.e., they must have failed to achieve CR after first-line therapy or must have relapsed subsequently if they achieved CR. For arm C, participants will be eligible if transplant is performed as consolidation of first remission (partial or complete).
• Participants must be planning to receive or have received autologous stem cell transplantation. Participants must have chemosensitive disease prior to ASCT, defined as achieving at least a partial remission (as determined with PET imaging) to salvage treatment. Participants with cHL or DLBCL (arms A and B) transplanted in 1st remission after only one line of treatment are not eligible. Participants with PTCL (arm C) transplanted beyond 1st remission are also not eligible.
• No more than 1 line of anthracycline-containing chemotherapy prior to ASCT, and no more than 3 lines of therapy total prior to ASCT for arms A and B; no more than 1 line of therapy prior to ASCT for arm C.
• Participants cannot have received any anti-neoplastic therapy (including radiotherapy, chemotherapy or immunotherapy) after ASCT
• Participants must have had PET-CT for restaging after salvage therapy and before ASCT.
• Participants must begin study treatment no later than 21 days from the post-ASCT discharge. Additionally, they must have recovered from ASCT toxicities at the time of first study treatment.
• ECOG performance status ≤2
• Participants must have normal organ and marrow function as defined below:
• absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,000/mcL
• platelets ≥ 50,000/mcL
• Hemoglobin ≥ 8 g/dl
• total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 × institutional upper limit of normal (ULN), or direct bilirubin ≤ ULN in patients with Gilbert's syndrome

You may not qualify if:

• Participants who are receiving any other investigational agents after ASCT.
• Participants with active CNS involvement are excluded.
• History of or active autoimmune disease, or other syndrome that requires systemic steroids or autoimmune agents. Participants with vitiligo, resolved childhood asthma or atopy, hypothyroidism, or Sjogren's syndrome, as well as participants requiring only intranasal steroids, intermittent use of bronchodilators, local steroid injections, or physiologic replacement doses of prednisone (≤ 10 mg/d) are not excluded from this study.
• Has a history of (non-infectious) pneumonitis that required steroids or current pneumonitis.
• Receipt of \> 600 mg/m2 total dose of BCNU with prior treatments including transplant conditioning regimen.
• Uncontrolled illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements or pose excess risk to the participant in the opinion of the treating clinician..
• Pregnant or lactating women.
• HIV-positive.
• Participants with active viral hepatitis (positive HepB sAg, positive HepB core Ab with positive HepB viral load, or positive HepC antibody with positive HepC viral load).
• Receipt of a live vaccine within 30 days of the start of treatment. Examples are measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, yellow fever, rabies, BCG, oral polio vaccine, and oral typhoid vaccine.
• Prior treatment with an anti PD-1, anti PD-L1, or anti CTLA-4 agent. Participants who entered clinical remission with one of those agents and proceeded to ASCT without intervening relapse may be eligible after discussion with the Study Chair. Note that for patients who enter remission with checkpoint blockade therapy, this will not count towards the 3 lines of prior therapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: lead
• Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC: collaborator

Study Sites (6)

City of Hope National Medical Center

Duarte, California, 91010, United States

Location

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, 02114, United States

Location

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States

Location

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States

Location

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York, 10065, United States

Location

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

Location

Related Publications (5)

• Merrill MH, Dahi PB, Redd RA, McDonough MM, Chen YB, DeFilipp Z, Herrera AF, Fisher DC, LaCasce AS, Odejide OO, Ng SY, Jacobson CA, Merryman RW, Kim AI, Nieto YL, Sauter CS, Shah GL, Zain JM, Armand P, Jacobsen ED. A phase 2 study of pembrolizumab after autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood. 2023 Aug 17;142(7):621-628. doi: 10.1182/blood.2023020244.

  PMID: 37319432 DERIVED

• Merryman RW, Redd RA, Taranto E, Ahmed G, Jeter E, McHugh KM, Brown JR, Crombie JL, Davids MS, Fisher DC, Freedman AS, Jacobsen E, Jacobson CA, Kim AI, LaCasce AS, Ng SY, Odejide OO, Parry EM, Jacene H, Park H, Dahi PB, Nieto Y, Joyce RM, Chen YB, Shipp MA, Herrera AF, Armand P. Minimal residual disease in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma undergoing autologous stem cell transplantation. Blood Adv. 2023 Sep 12;7(17):4748-4759. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2022007706.

  PMID: 36399518 DERIVED

• Merryman RW, Redd R, Jeter E, Wong JL, McHugh K, Reynolds C, Nazzaro M, Varden A, Brown JR, Crombie JL, Davids MS, Fisher DC, Jacobsen E, Jacobson CA, Kim AI, LaCasce AS, Ng SY, Odejide OO, Parry EM, Dahi PB, Nieto Y, Joyce RM, Chen YB, Herrera AF, Armand P, Ritz J. Immune Reconstitution following High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation with or without Pembrolizumab Maintenance Therapy in Patients with Lymphoma. Transplant Cell Ther. 2022 Jan;28(1):32.e1-32.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.jtct.2021.10.010. Epub 2021 Oct 17.

  PMID: 34670169 DERIVED

• Frigault MJ, Armand P, Redd RA, Jeter E, Merryman RW, Coleman KC, Herrera AF, Dahi P, Nieto Y, LaCasce AS, Fisher DC, Ng SY, Odejide OO, Freedman AS, Kim AI, Crombie JL, Jacobson CA, Jacobsen ED, Wong JL, Bsat J, Patel SS, Ritz J, Rodig SJ, Shipp MA, Chen YB, Joyce RM. PD-1 blockade for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma after autologous stem cell transplantation. Blood Adv. 2020 Jan 14;4(1):122-126. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2019000784.

  PMID: 31917843 DERIVED

• Armand P, Chen YB, Redd RA, Joyce RM, Bsat J, Jeter E, Merryman RW, Coleman KC, Dahi PB, Nieto Y, LaCasce AS, Fisher DC, Ng SY, Odejide OO, Freedman AS, Kim AI, Crombie JL, Jacobson CA, Jacobsen ED, Wong JL, Patel SS, Ritz J, Rodig SJ, Shipp MA, Herrera AF. PD-1 blockade with pembrolizumab for classical Hodgkin lymphoma after autologous stem cell transplantation. Blood. 2019 Jul 4;134(1):22-29. doi: 10.1182/blood.2019000215. Epub 2019 Apr 5.

  PMID: 30952672 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Hodgkin Disease; Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse; Lymphoma, T-Cell, Peripheral

Interventions

pembrolizumab

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Lymphoma; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Lymphoproliferative Disorders; Lymphatic Diseases; Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases; Immunoproliferative Disorders; Immune System Diseases; Lymphoma, B-Cell; Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin; Lymphoma, T-Cell

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Philippe Armand, MD, PhD
• Organization: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

philippe_armand@dfci.harvard.edu

617-632-2305

Study Officials

• Reid Merryman, MD

  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: No
• Restrictive Agreement: No

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 2
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 5, 2015
• First Posted: February 13, 2015
• Study Start: April 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: October 26, 2021
• Study Completion: June 1, 2023
• Last Updated: May 18, 2026
• Results First Posted: December 8, 2022

Record last verified: 2026-05

Locations

US (6)