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Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, Not Otherwise SpecifiedNCT03850028

Molecular Imaging Using Radiolabeled Atezolizumab to Assess Atezolizumab Biodistribution in Lymphoma Patients

A study testing 89Zr-atezolizumab PET scans in people with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, Not Otherwise Specified, run by University Medical Center Groningen at 2 sites in Netherlands.

Withdrawn

Withdrawn. The study stopped before anyone enrolled.

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Trial summary

Molecular imaging can be used for the noninvasive assessment of biodistribution of monoclonal antibodies. Atezolizumab has previously successfully been labeled with the radionucleotide Zirconium-89 (89Zr) and studied in solid malignancies (NCT02453984). Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 75 years
What is being tested?
89Zr-atezolizumab PET scans
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
0 participants
Where
2 sitesNetherlands
Study dates
22 May 2019to 1 May 2022
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 75 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Age 18-75 (inclusive) years
  • Patients with a confirmed histologic diagnosis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma not otherwise specified (DLBCL-NOS) based upon a representative histology specimen according to the World Health Organization (WHO) classification, revision 2016 (see appendix A)
  • Ann Arbor stages II-IV (see appendix B)
  • WHO performance status 0 - 1 (see appendix E)
  • international prognostic index (IPI) ≥ 3 at diagnosis (see appendix C)
  • Negative pregnancy test at study entry
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  • Patient is willing and able use adequate contraception during and until 5 months after the last protocol treatment.
  • Written informed consent
  • Patient is capable of giving a written informed consent

Who cannot join

  • Diagnosis
  • All histopathological diagnoses other than DLBCL-NOS according to the WHO classification, revision 2016 (see appendix A), including:
  • High-grade B-cell lymphoma, with MYC and BCL2 and/or BCL6 translocations
  • Testicular large B-cell lymphoma
  • Primary mediastinal B cell lymphoma
  • Transformed indolent lymphoma
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  • Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder
  • Organ dysfunction
  • Clinical signs of severe pulmonary dysfunction
  • Clinical signs of heart failure (NYHA classification II-IV)
  • Symptomatic coronary artery disease or cardiac arrhythmias not well controlled with medication.
  • Myocardial infarction during the last 6 months
  • Significant renal dysfunction (serum creatinine ≥ 150 umol/l or clearance ≤ 30ml/min
  • Creatinine clearance (CrCl) may be calculated by Cockcroft -Gault formula:
  • CrCl = (140 - age [in years]) x weight [kg] (x 0.85 for females) / (0.815 x serum creatinine [μmol/L])
  • Inadequate hematological function: hemoglobin < 5.5 mmol/L,absolute neutrophil count (ANC) < 1.0x10^9/L or platelets < 75x10^9 /L
  • Spontaneous international normalized ratio (INR) > 1.5, activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) >33
  • Significant hepatic dysfunction (total bilirubin ≥ 1.5x upper limit of normal (ULN) or transaminases ≥ 2.5 x ULN), unless related to Gilberts syndrome.
  • Clinical signs of severe cerebral dysfunction
  • Patients with a history of uncontrolled seizures, central nervous system disorders or psychiatric disability judged by the investigator to be clinically significant and adversely affecting compliance to study drugs
  • Major surgery within the last 4 weeks
  • Known or suspected infection
  • Known active bacterial, viral, fungal, mycobacterial, parasitic, or other infection or any major episode of infection requiring treatment with IV antibiotics or hospitalization within 4 weeks before date of registration. Suspected active or latent tuberculosis needs to be confirmed by positive interferon gamma (IFN-γ) release assay
  • Patients known to be human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive
  • Active chronic hepatitis B or C infection
  • Administration of a live, attenuated vaccine within 4 weeks before date of registration or anticipation that such a live attenuated vaccine will be required during the study and for a period of 5 months after discontinuation of atezolizumab
  • Auto-immune
  • Any active or history of documented autoimmune disease, including but not limited to myasthenia gravis, myositis, autoimmune hepatitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, vascular thrombosis associated with antiphospholipid syndrome, Wegener's granulomatosis, Sjögren's syndrome, Guillain-Barré syndrome, multiple sclerosis, vasculitis, or glomerulonephritis. The following exceptions are allowed: Patients with autoimmune-related hypothyroidism or type 1 diabetes mellitus who are on stable treatment.
  • History of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, organizing pneumonia (e.g., bronchiolitis obliterans), drug-induced pneumonitis, idiopathic pneumonitis, or evidence of active pneumonitis per chest CT scan at screening.
  • Patients with uncontrolled asthma or allergy, requiring systemic steroid treatment
  • Regular treatment with corticosteroids within the 4 weeks prior to date of registration, unless administered for indications other than non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) at a dose equivalent to < 30 mg/day prednisone/prednisolone.
  • General
  • Serious underlying medical conditions, which could impair the ability of the patient to participate in the trial (e.g. ongoing infection, uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, gastric ulcers, active autoimmune disease)
  • Current participation in another clinical trial interfering with this trial
  • History of active cancer during the past 5 years, except basal cell carcinoma of the skin or stage 0 cervical carcinoma
  • Life expectancy < 6 months
  • Any psychological, familial, sociological and geographical condition potentially hampering compliance with the study protocol and follow-up schedule
  • Prior treatment
  • Prior treatment with atezolizumab, or anti PD1 or PDL1 antibodies.
  • Prior treatment with CD137 agonists or immune checkpoint blockade therapies, including anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA4) therapeutic antibodies.
  • Treatment with systemic immunostimulatory agents (including but not limited to interferon (IFN), interleukin (IL)-2) within 6 weeks or 5 half-lives of the drug, whichever is shorter, prior to date of registration.
  • Treatment with systemic immunosuppressive medications, including but not limited to prednisone, cyclophosphamide, azathioprine, methotrexate, thalidomide, and anti- tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) agents within 2 weeks prior to date of registration; inhaled corticosteroids and mineralocorticoids are allowed.

Trial locations and contacts

2 sites in 1 country.

Netherlands2 sites
  • VU University Medical Center

    Amsterdam, North Holland, 1081HV

  • University Medical Center Groningen

    Groningen, 9100 RB

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About this study

Official title: Molecular Imaging of Zirconium-89-labeled Atezolizumab as a Tool to Investigate Atezolizumab Biodistribution in High-risk Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma

Molecular imaging can be used for the noninvasive assessment of biodistribution of monoclonal antibodies. Atezolizumab has previously successfully been labeled with the radionucleotide Zirconium-89 (89Zr) and studied in solid malignancies (NCT02453984). The results of atezolizumab biodistribution can help to get a better understanding of the response mechanisms, the relation with minimal residual disease, the relation with the status of the T-cell and natural killer (NK)-cell repertoire and toxicity of programmed death ligand 1 (PDL1) checkpoint inhibition. Possibly in the future this will facilitate optimal patient selection. Sequential 89Zr-atezolizumab positron emission tomography (PET) scans can provide information on the dynamics of atezolizumab biodistribution over time. In combination with repeated characterization of tumor tissue and blood samples, these results can give inside in primary and acquired resistance.

In this parallel study of the HOVON 151 trial, 89Zr-atezolizumab-PET-scans will be used to evaluate 20 high risk DLBCL patients before and after induction (R-CHOP) therapy, and at suspected relapse during or after atezolizumab consolidation (HOVON 151).

Read the detailed description

Patients with a high risk diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBLC) with an international prognostic score (IPI) > 2, have a high risk of relapse even after achieving a metabolic complete remission with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone and rituximab (R-CHOP) chemo-immunotherapy. Outcome after relapse is dismal. In patients with varies types of relapsed lymphoma checkpoint inhibition have shown promising results.

In order to improve outcome patients with a high risk DLBCL will be treated in the HOVON 151 trial (EudracT 2017-002605-35) with the monoclonal antibody directed against the immune checkpoint program death ligand 1 (PDL1) atezolizumab for 1 year after achieving a complete metabolic remission with R-CHOP.

The observed percentage of PDL1 positive tumor cells in DLBCL cases ranges from 13 to 31%. For PD-1/PDL1 checkpoint inhibition PDL1 tumor surface expression was proposed as a potential predictive marker. Despite higher overall response rates in PDL1 positive malignancies compared to PDL1 negative tumors, responses are seen in PDL1 negative patients nevertheless. PDL1 status from resected specimens showed a poor correlation to the PDL1 status from matched biopsies. Furthermore it has been shown that PDL1 expression in tumor biopsies changes with treatment. Therefore, PDL1 expression assessed by one single biopsy might not be representative.

Molecular imaging can be used for the noninvasive assessment of biodistribution of monoclonal antibodies. Atezolizumab has previously successfully been labeled with the radionucleotide Zirconium-89 (89Zr) and studied in solid malignancies (NCT02453984). The results of atezolizumab biodistribution can help to get a better understanding of the response mechanisms, the relation with minimal residual disease, the relation with the status of the T-cell and natural killer (NK)-cell repertoire and toxicity of programmed death ligand 1 (PDL1) checkpoint inhibition. Possibly in the future this will facilitate optimal patient selections. Sequential 89Zr-atezolizumab PET scans can provide information on the dynamics of atezolizumab biodistribution over time. In combination with repeated characterization of tumor tissue and blood samples, these results can give inside in the primary and acquired resistance.

In this parallel study of the HOVON 151 trial, 89Zr-atezolizumab-PET-scans will be used to evaluate 20 high risk DLBCL patients before and after induction (R-CHOP) therapy, and at suspected relapse during or after atezolizumab consolidation (HOVON 151).

Being tested
89Zr-atezolizumab PET scans
Keywords
high risk DLBCL, molecular imaging, 89Zr-atezolizumab-PET, PDL1 imaging
Medical subject headings
Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • 89Zr-atezolizumab PET scansOther

    The anti-PDL1 antibody atezolizumab, labeled with Zirconium-89 (89Zr) will be used as a molecular imaging tracer for PET scanning.

    These 89Zr-atezolizumab PET scans will be performed before and after induction therapy (R-CHOP) and at suspected relapse during or after consolidation treatment with atezolizumab (treatment trial HOVON 151).

Study groups in NCT03850028
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Imaging cohortOtherAll study participants will be allocated to this arm (single-arm study). Study participants will undergo a maximum of 3 89Zr-atezolizumab PET scans.
Receives: Other: 89Zr-atezolizumab PET scans

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Biodistribution of 89Zr-atezolizumab

    The biodistribution of the tracer 89Zr-atezolizumab as assessed with 89Zr-atezolizumab PET scans.

    Measured: From 2 weeks before R-CHOP until 52 weeks after R-CHOP

Secondary outcomes (4)
  1. PDL1 and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) expression using immunohistochemistry (IHC)

    Tumor and immune cell PDL1 and HLA expression on archival pre-treatment biopsy via IHC.

    Measured: IHC for PDL1 and HLA expression on archival tumor tissue will be performed after initial biopsy at time of diagnosis.

  2. Soluble programmed death ligand 1 (sPDL1) measurement using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

    sPDL1 serum levels will be determined with ELISA

    Measured: From 2 weeks before R-CHOP until 52 weeks after R-CHOP

  3. Gene expression profiling (GEP) via Nanostring

    GEP via Nanostring analysis for cell-of origin will be perfomed on archival, paraffin fixed biopsies.

    Measured: From 2 weeks before R-CHOP until 52 weeks after R-CHOP

  4. Next generation sequencing (NGS) data

    Mutational analysis will be perfomed on archival, paraffin fixed biopsies.

    Measured: From 2 weeks before R-CHOP until 52 weeks after R-CHOP

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted21 Feb 2019
  2. Study start22 May 2019
  3. Primary completion1 May 2022
  4. Study completion1 May 2022

Why it stopped: Closed prematurely because the accrual was not achieved

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Diagnosis
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
0 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03850028
Sponsor's protocol ID
201700599
Other IDs
2017-003511-20, NL63047.042.18, 2017
Status last verified
May 2023
First submitted
15 Feb 2019
Last updated
15 May 2023
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing 89Zr-atezolizumab PET scans in people with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, Not Otherwise Specified, run by University Medical Center Groningen at 2 sites in Netherlands.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 9 inclusion and 42 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: withdrawn, as of the sponsor's last update on 15 May 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 2 sites in Netherlands. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Biodistribution of 89Zr-atezolizumab (time frame: From 2 weeks before R-CHOP until 52 weeks after R-CHOP). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 15 May 2023.

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