A Phase II Study of Zanubrutinib, Lenalidomide Plus R-CHOP as the First-line Treatment for Diffused Large B-cell Lymphoma

NCT05200312 | Unknown Phase 2

• 1 other identifier: CWCLL-003
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 36
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

This study is a multi-center, open-label, single-arm, non-randomized phase II clinical study in order to evaluate the safety and efficacy of zanubrutinib, lenalidomide plus R-CHOP (ZR2-CHOP) as the first-line therapy for treatment-naive high-risk diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients.

Conditions

Non Hodgkin Lymphoma; Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Complete response rate after six cycles of ZR2-CHOP

  Complete response rate will be assessed by (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET/CT) according to 2014 Lugano Criteria.

  at the end of 6 cycles(each cycle is 21 days)

Secondary Outcomes (7)

• Progression-Free Survival (PFS) two years follow-up

  At 2 years

• Overall survival (OS) two years follow-up

  At 2 years

• Circulating tumor Deoxyribonucleic Acid (ctDNA) clearance rate

  Baseline (At initial start), at the end of 2,4 ,6 cycles(each cycle is 21 days)

• Overall response rate after six cycles of ZR2-CHOP

  at the end of 6 cycles(each cycle is 21 days)

• Overall response rate after two, four cycles of ZR2-CHOP

  at the end of 2,4 cycles(each cycle is 21 days)

Study Arms (1)

Treatment-naive DLBCL

EXPERIMENTAL

Treatment-naive high-risk DLBCL patients will be enrolled. R/R2-CHOP were allowed in cycle 1 due to poor physical condition or liver and renal failure caused by lymphoma progression. Patients achieving Complete Remission (CR) or Partial Remission (PR) after 2 cycles will receive another 2 cycles. Patients achieving CR or PR after 4 cycles will finish 6 cycles. Patients achieving CR after 6 cycles with double-hit/triple-hit/double-expression/median to high risk aaIPI will undergo Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation (ASCT). Other patients will be administered rituximab for another 2 cycles and then turn to follow-up. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 3 months for 2 years, and then every 6 months for another 3 years. Patients achieving Stable Disease (SD) or PD (Progression Disease) after 2 or 4 cycles will quit the study. After 6 cycles, patients achieving SD or PD will quit the study and patients achieving PR will receive second-line therapy.

Drug: Zanubrutinib; Drug: Lenalidomide; Drug: Rituximab; Drug: Cyclophosphamide; Drug: Doxorubicin; Drug: Vincristine; Drug: Prednisone (or equivalent)

Interventions

Zanubrutinib DRUG

160 mg capsules administered by mouth twice daily (21-day cycles).

Treatment-naive DLBCL

Lenalidomide DRUG

25 mg capsules administered by mouth once daily on Day 1 to Day 10 of each cycle (21-day cycles)

Treatment-naive DLBCL

Rituximab DRUG

375 mg/m2 administered intravenously once on Day 1 of each cycle (21-day cycles)

Treatment-naive DLBCL

Cyclophosphamide DRUG

750 mg/m2 administered intravenously once on Day 1 of each cycle (21-day cycles)

Treatment-naive DLBCL

Doxorubicin DRUG

50 mg/m2 administered intravenously once on Day 1 of each cycle (21-day cycles)

Treatment-naive DLBCL

Vincristine DRUG

1.4 mg/m2 administered intravenously once on Day 1 of each cycle (21-day cycles)

Treatment-naive DLBCL

Prednisone (or equivalent) DRUG

40 mg/m2 capsules administered by mouth once daily on Day 1 to Day 5 of each cycle

Treatment-naive DLBCL

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Histologically-confirmed and previously untreated Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) with median to high risk (including but not limited to double/triple-hit, double expression and median-to-high risk aaIPI).
• Male or female patients above 18 years old.
• No prior exposure to treatment except a limited-field radiotherapy, short-term use of glucocorticoid =\<25mg/day prednisone equivalent (must discontinue prior to day 1 of cycle 1) and/or cyclophosphamide due to an urgent lymphoma-related clinical situation (e.g. epidural spinal cord compression, superior vena caval syndrome and etc.).
• At least one measurable disease, as defined as radiographically apparent disease with the longest axis \>=1.5cm.
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) ≤3 (Patients with ECOG PS 3 should only be included if investigators deem that decline of status due to lymphoma and is reversible).
• Serum bilirubin \<1.5 Upper Limit of Normal (ULN), other than gilbert syndrome (defined as unconjugated bilirubin \>80%); Aspartate transaminase (AST) and Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤3 ULN or \<5 ULN (if abnormality due to lymphoma).
• Enough reserve function of bone marrow, regarded as absolute neutrophil count (ANC) \> 1.0×109/L and Platelets \> 75 ×109/L except that abnormality is due to lymphoma involvement in the bone marrow and felt reversible by investigators.
• Creatinine clearance rate (Ccr) ≥30 ml / min calculated by Cockcroft-Gault formula.
• Patients must give consent to transfusions of blood products.
• Able to take aspirin (100mg) or alternative therapy daily as prophylactic anticoagulation.
• With life expectancy more than 3 months.
• All study participants must give consent to follow-up. Patients are fully aware of disease they have and sign informed consent on their own in order to join this study and receive treatment and follow-up.

You may not qualify if:

• Any serious medical condition including but not limited to uncontrolled hypertension, uncontrolled congestive heart failure within past 6 months prior to screening (class 3 \[moderate\] or class 4 \[severe\] cardiac disease as defined by the New York Heart Association Functional Classification), uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, active/symptomatic coronary artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) less than 55%, renal failure, active infection, history of invasive fungal infection, moderate to severe hepatic disease (Child Pugh class B or C), active hemorrhage, laboratory abnormality, or psychiatric illness that, in the investigators opinion places the patient at unacceptable risk and would prevent the subject from signing the informed consent form; patients with history of cardiac arrhythmias should have cardiac evaluation and clearance.
• Pregnant or lactating females.
• Known hypersensitivity to lenalidomide or thalidomide, Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) inhibitor, rituximab, vincristine, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, or prednisone.
• Patients with active hepatitis B infection (HBV-DNA detectable) and active hepatitis C infection; patients with other acquired or congenital immunodeficiency disease, including but not limited to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
• All patients with central nervous system involvement with lymphoma; patients with primary mediastinal large B cell lymphoma; patients with Richter Syndrome (aggressive DLBCL transformed from indolent CLL).
• Patients diagnosed as other malignancy except lymphoma, not including:
• Patients received curable treatment and no occurrence of active malignancy more than 5 years prior to study entry; successfully treated basal cell carcinoma without disease symptoms (except melanoma); successfully treated "in situ" cervix carcinoma.
• Significant neuropathy (grade 2 or grade 1 with pain) within 14 days prior to enrollment.
• Contraindication to any of the required concomitant drugs or supportive treatments or intolerance to hydration due to preexisting pulmonary or cardiac impairment including pleural effusion requiring thoracentesis or ascites requiring paracentesis not due to lymphoma.
• Patients with active pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis (diagnosed within 30 days of study enrollment).
• Patients with severe bradycardia (heart rate \< 40 beats per minute \[bpm\], hypotension, light-headedness, syncope).
• Major surgery within 3 weeks of study entry, or wound that is not healed from prior surgery or trauma.
• History of stroke or intracranial hemorrhage within 6 months prior to study entry.
• Requires anticoagulation with warfarin or equivalent vitamin K antagonists.
• Requires chronic treatment with strong cytochrome P450, family 3, subfamily A (CYP3A) inhibitors.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University: lead

Study Sites (2)

Department of Haematology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Jiangsu Province Hospital

Nanjin, Jiangsu, 210029, China

RECRUITING

First affiliation hospital of nanjing medical university

Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210000, China

RECRUITING

Related Publications (1)

• Xia Y, Miao Y, Qian S, Zhang R, Qin S, Xie X, Li B, Sha Y, Tang H, Jin H, Cao L, Xu W, Fan L, Li J, Shi W, Zhu H. Zanubrutinib, lenalidomide and rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone as initial treatment in non-germinal center B-cell diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: a multi-center phase 2 study by Jiangsu Cooperative Lymphoma Group (JCLG). BMC Med. 2025 Oct 24;23(1):583. doi: 10.1186/s12916-025-04418-y.

  PMID: 41136989 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin; Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse

Interventions

zanubrutinib; Lenalidomide; Rituximab; Cyclophosphamide; Doxorubicin; Vincristine; Prednisone

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

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Phthalimides; Phthalic Acids; Acids, Carbocyclic; Carboxylic Acids; Organic Chemicals; Piperidones; Piperidines; Heterocyclic Compounds, 1-Ring; Heterocyclic Compounds; Isoindoles; Heterocyclic Compounds, 2-Ring; Heterocyclic Compounds, Fused-Ring; Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived; Antibodies, Monoclonal; Antibodies; Immunoglobulins; Immunoproteins; Blood Proteins; Proteins; Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins; Serum Globulins; Globulins; Phosphoramide Mustards; Nitrogen Mustard Compounds; Mustard Compounds; Hydrocarbons, Halogenated; Hydrocarbons; Phosphoramides; Organophosphorus Compounds; Daunorubicin; Anthracyclines; Naphthacenes; Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons; Hydrocarbons, Aromatic; Hydrocarbons, Cyclic; Polycyclic Compounds; Aminoglycosides; Glycosides; Carbohydrates; Vinca Alkaloids; Secologanin Tryptamine Alkaloids; Indole Alkaloids; Alkaloids; Indoles; Indolizidines; Indolizines; Pregnadienediols; Pregnadienes; Pregnanes; Steroids; Fused-Ring Compounds

Study Officials

• Jianyong Li, Phd, MD

  The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Jianyong Li, Phd, MD

CONTACT

025-83718836; lijianyonglm@126.com

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 2
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 17, 2022
• First Posted: January 20, 2022
• Study Start: February 1, 2022
• Primary Completion: February 1, 2024
• Study Completion: February 1, 2025
• Last Updated: March 11, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CN (2)