Doxorubicin, Vinblastine, Dacarbazine, Brentuximab Vedotin, and Nivolumab in Treating Patients With Stage I-II Hodgkin Lymphoma
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03233347 |
Recruitment Status :
Active, not recruiting
First Posted : July 28, 2017
Last Update Posted : July 8, 2022
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Ann Arbor Stage I Hodgkin Lymphoma Ann Arbor Stage IA Hodgkin Lymphoma Ann Arbor Stage IB Hodgkin Lymphoma Ann Arbor Stage II Hodgkin Lymphoma Ann Arbor Stage IIA Hodgkin Lymphoma Ann Arbor Stage IIB Hodgkin Lymphoma Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma | Drug: Brentuximab Vedotin Drug: Dacarbazine Drug: Doxorubicin Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Biological: Nivolumab Drug: Vinblastine | Phase 2 |

Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 82 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase II Trial of PET-Directed Therapy Using AVD (Doxorubicin, Vinblastine, and Dacarbazine) Plus Brentuximab Vedotin Induction Chemotherapy, With or Without Brentuximab Vedotin Plus Nivolumab, Followed by Nivolumab Consolidation for Patients With Previously Untreated Non-Bulky Limited Stage Hodgkin Lymphoma |
Actual Study Start Date : | October 13, 2017 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | August 1, 2023 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | August 7, 2024 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Treatment (combination chemotherapy, nivolumab)
Patients receive doxorubicin IV over 3-5 minutes, vinblastine IV over 3-5 minutes, and dacarbazine IV over >= 30 minutes, and brentuximab vedotin IV over 30 minutes on days 1 and 15. Treatment repeats every 28 days for 3 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with PET-positive then receive brentuximab vedotin IV over 30 minutes and nivolumab IV over 30 minutes on day 1. Treatment repeats every 2 weeks for 4 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. PET-positive patients then receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes on day 1. Treatment repeats every 2 weeks for 8 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. PET-negative patients receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes on day 1 starting after AVD and BV treatment. Treatment repeats every 2 weeks for 8 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
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Drug: Brentuximab Vedotin
Given IV
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Drug: Dacarbazine Given IV
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Drug: Doxorubicin Given IV
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Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Correlative studies Biological: Nivolumab Given IV
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Drug: Vinblastine Given IV
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- Progression free survival [ Time Frame: From registration, where progression is by computed tomography (CT)-based or positron emission tomography (PET)-CT based criteria, assessed at 3 years ]The distribution of progression-free survival time will be estimated using the method of Kaplan-Meier and the efficacy will be determined by the log rank statistic. Overall progression-free survival at 3 years will be reported.
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: Time from registration to death due to any cause, assessed at 3 and 5 years ]The distribution of overall survival time will be estimated using the method of Kaplan-Meier. Will be estimated in each group.
- The proportion of patients who are positron emission tomography (PET) negative [ Time Frame: After 3 courses (84 days) ]Will be estimated by the number of patients who are PET negative divided by the total number of evaluable patients.
- Proportion of patients who are positron emission tomography (PET) positive [ Time Frame: After 3 courses (84 days) ]Will be estimated by the number of patients who are PET positive divided by the total number of evaluable patients.
- Progression free survival [ Time Frame: From registration, where progression is by CT-based or PET-CT based criteria, assessed at 84 days ]Differences between the groups will be assessed by log-rank statistics.
- Progression free survival [ Time Frame: From registration, where progression is by CT-based or PET-CT based criteria, assessed at 3 years ]Differences between the groups will be assessed by log-rank statistics.
- Progression free survival [ Time Frame: From registration, where progression is by CT-based or PET-CT based criteria, assessed at 5 years ]Differences between the groups will be assessed by log-rank statistics.
- Overall response rate (ORR) [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ]The ORR will be estimated by the number of patients with an complete response (CR)/complete metabolic response/partial response (PR)/partial metabolic response or better divided by the total number of evaluable patients. The ORR may be analysed when all patients are off treatment. Exact binomial 95% confidence intervals for the true overall response rate will be calculated.
- Time to progression [ Time Frame: Time from registration to the earliest date of documentation of disease progression, assessed up to 5 years ]The distribution of time to progression will be estimated using the method of Kaplan-Meier.
- The proportion of patients who convert from partial response at the end of induction therapy to complete response after brentuximab vedotin plus nivolumab (NVB) [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ]Will be estimated by the number of patients who convert divided by the total number of evaluable patients who receive at least one dose of NVB induction therapy. Exact binomial 95% confidence intervals for the true conversion rate will be calculated.
- Duration of response [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ]Will be defined for all evaluable patients who have achieved a PR or CR as the date at which the patient's objective status is first noted to be a response to the earliest date progression is documented. The distribution of duration of response will be estimated using the method of Kaplan-Meier.
- Incidence of adverse events [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ]Will be assessed by the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4. The maximum grade for each type of adverse event will be recorded for each patient, and frequency tables will be reviewed to determine patterns. Additionally, the relationship of the adverse event(s) to the study treatment will be taken into consideration.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 60 Years (Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Measurable disease (>= 1.5 cm) as assessed by 2 dimensional measurement by computed tomography (CT)
- Previously untreated stage I or II non-bulky (defined as a mass measuring < 10 cm in the longest dimension by CT) classical Hodgkin lymphoma
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) 0-2
- Life expectancy >= 3 months
- Documented negative serologic testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B (unless serologically positive due to prior vaccination), and hepatitis C =< 1 year prior to registration
- White blood cell >= 2,000 /mm^3 without transfusion support > 7 days prior to registration
- Hemoglobin >= 8.5 g/dL without transfusion support > 7 days prior to registration
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1,000 cells/mm^3 without transfusion support > 7 days prior to registration
- Platelet count >= 75,000/mm^3 without transfusion support > 7 days prior to registration
- Alanine and aspartate aminotransferase (ALT/AST) =< 2.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) obtained =< 14 days prior to registration
- Total serum bilirubin =< 1.5 x ULN (if documented Gilberts syndrome =< 3 x ULN) obtained =< 14 days prior to registration
- Serum creatinine =< 1.5 x ULN or measured calculated creatinine clearance >= 40 ml/min for subject with creatinine levels > 1.5 x institutional ULN (per Cockcroft-Gault formula) obtained =< 14 days prior to registration
- Negative serum pregnancy test (minimum sensitivity 25 IU/L or equivalent units of human chorionic gonadotropin [HCG]) within 7 days prior to registration in women of child-bearing potential (WOCBP)
- Sexually active female of reproductive capability ie, WOCBP, has agreed to use a medically accepted form of contraception from time of registration to completion of study therapy through 24 weeks (6 months) after last dose of NVB or BV; Note: Females of non-child-bearing potential are those who are postmenopausal for > 1 year or who have had a bilateral tubal ligation or hysterectomy
- Male subjects agree to use an adequate method of contraception starting with the first dose of study therapy through 31 weeks after the last dose of study therapy
- Provide informed written consent
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Willing to return to enrolling institution for follow-up (during the active monitoring phase of the study)
- Note: During the active monitoring phase of a study (i.e., active treatment and observation), participants must be willing to return to the consenting institution for follow-up
Exclusion Criteria:
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Any of the following because this study involves an investigational agent whose genotoxic, mutagenic and teratogenic effects on the developing fetus and newborn are unknown:
- Pregnant women
- Nursing women
- Men or women of childbearing potential who are unwilling to employ adequate contraception
- Prior therapies including involved field radiation therapy
- Bulky disease (defined as a nodal mass measuring >= 10 cm by CT)
- Known central nervous system (CNS) involvement
- Moderate or severe hepatic insufficiency Child-Pugh score > 6
- Severe renal impairment (i.e. creatinine clearance < 40 mL/min)
- Symptomatic cardiac disease including ventricular dysfunction, left ventricular ejection fraction < 45%, symptomatic coronary artery disease or symptomatic arrhythmias
- Diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving systemic steroid therapy or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy =< 7 days prior to registration
- Known history of active TB (Bacillus tuberculosis)
- Requires therapy with agents that have a predisposition for hepatoxicity
- Hypersensitivity to NVB or any of its excipients or to any component of AVD + BV therapy
- Requires immunosuppressive doses of corticosteroid therapy (> 10 mg/day prednisone equivalents) for >= 2 weeks prior to registration
- Active, known, or suspected autoimmune disease that requires systemic treatment (i.e. with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs); Note: Replacement therapy (eg, thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is not considered a form of systemic treatment; subjects are permitted to enroll if they have vitiligo, type I diabetes mellitus, residual hypothyroidism due to autoimmune condition only requiring hormone replacement, psoriasis not requiring systemic treatment, or conditions not expected to recur in the absence of an external trigger
- Active infection requiring systemic IV antibiotic therapy
- History of Steven's Johnson's syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome (TENs) or motor neuropathy
- History or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the trial, interfere with the subject's participation for the full duration of the trial, or is not in the best interest of the subject to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator
- Known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with cooperation with the requirements of the trial
- Received prior therapy with an anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, or anti-PD-L2 agent
- Known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (HIV 1/2 antibodies)
- Known active hepatitis B (e.g., hepatitis B surface antigen [HBsAg] reactive) or hepatitis C (e.g., hepatitis C virus [HCV] ribonucleic acid [RNA] [qualitative] is detected)
- Received a live vaccine =< 30 days prior to registration; Note: Seasonal influenza vaccines for injection are generally inactivated flu vaccines and are allowed; however, intranasal influenza vaccines (e.g., Flu-Mist) are live attenuated vaccines, and are not allowed; routine vaccinations, including seasonal influenza, must be given >= 2 weeks prior to registration
- History of allergies and adverse drug reaction to study drug components
- History of another primary malignancy that has not been in remission for at least 3 years; (Note: The following are exempt for the 3-year limit: nonmelanoma skin cancer, fully excised melanoma in situ [stage 0], curatively treated localized prostate cancer, and cervical carcinoma in situ on biopsy or a squamous intraepithelial lesion on papanicolaou [PAP] smear)
- Co-morbid systemic illnesses or other severe concurrent disease which, in the judgment of the investigator, would make the patient inappropriate for entry into this study or interfere significantly with the proper assessment of safety and toxicity of the prescribed regimens
- Uncontrolled intercurrent 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
- Receiving any other investigational agent which would be considered as a treatment for the primary neoplasm
- History of progressive promyelocytic leukemia (PML), known history of pancreatitis, active grade 3 or higher viral, bacterial or fungal infection =< 2 weeks prior to registration and documented history of cerebrovascular event (stroke or transient ischemic attack [TIA]) =< 6 months prior to registration

To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT03233347
United States, California | |
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center | |
Duarte, California, United States, 91010 | |
United States, Minnesota | |
Mayo Clinic in Rochester | |
Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905 | |
United States, Nebraska | |
University of Nebraska Medical Center | |
Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68198 | |
United States, New Jersey | |
Hackensack University Medical Center | |
Hackensack, New Jersey, United States, 07601 | |
United States, North Carolina | |
Carolinas Medical Center/Levine Cancer Institute | |
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 28203 | |
United States, Pennsylvania | |
University of Pennsylvania/Abramson Cancer Center | |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104 | |
United States, Tennessee | |
Vanderbilt University/Ingram Cancer Center | |
Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232 | |
United States, Texas | |
M D Anderson Cancer Center | |
Houston, Texas, United States, 77030 | |
United States, Washington | |
University of Washington Medical Center - Montlake | |
Seattle, Washington, United States, 98195 |
Principal Investigator: | Steven I Park | Academic and Community Cancer Research United |
Responsible Party: | Academic and Community Cancer Research United |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT03233347 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
ACCRU-LY-1601 NCI-2017-01308 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) ) ACCRU-LY-1601 ( Other Identifier: Academic and Community Cancer Research United ) P30CA015083 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) |
First Posted: | July 28, 2017 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | July 8, 2022 |
Last Verified: | May 2022 |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: | Yes |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: | No |
Product Manufactured in and Exported from the U.S.: | No |
Lymphoma Hodgkin Disease Neoplasms by Histologic Type Neoplasms Lymphoproliferative Disorders Lymphatic Diseases Immunoproliferative Disorders Immune System Diseases Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological Nivolumab Brentuximab Vedotin Doxorubicin Liposomal doxorubicin Daunorubicin Dacarbazine |
Vinblastine Antibodies Immunoglobulins Antibodies, Monoclonal Immunoconjugates Imidazole Immunologic Factors Physiological Effects of Drugs Antineoplastic Agents Antibiotics, Antineoplastic Topoisomerase II Inhibitors Topoisomerase Inhibitors Enzyme Inhibitors Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors |