Clinical trial NCT00554164: Positron Emission Tomography Guided Therapy of Aggressive Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas
Official title: Positron Emission Tomography Guided Therapy of Aggressive Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE3
Conditions: Lymphoma, High-grade
Keywords: Aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Positron emission tomography
Chemotherapy
Lead sponsor: University Hospital, Essen
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Deutsche Krebshilfe e.V., Bonn (Germany)
First posted: 2007-11-06
Enrollment: 1073
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The main purpose of the PETAL trial is to determine whether patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphomas with a persistently positive PET scan after two cycles of chemotherapy benefit from a change of the treatment protocol.

Detailed description: Positron emission tomography performed after two cycles of (R-)CHOP chemotherapy (interim-PET) has been shown to predict long-term outcome in patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. Patients with early normalization of pathological PET findings have an excellent prognosis, while patients with a persistently pathological PET scan have a high risk of non-response or relapse.

Patients with a negative interim-PET scan (part A of the trial) will be randomized to receive either another four cycles of the (R-)CHOP regimen (arm A1) or four cycles of the (R-)CHOP regimen plus two additional doses of rituximab (arm A2). Randomisation in part A of the trial was stopped when the number of patients required was reached (128 patients in each treatment arm). Since then patients have been uniformly treated according to arm A2.

Patients with a persistently positive interim-PET scan (part B of the trial) will be randomized to either continue treatment with another six (R-)CHOP cycles (arm B1) or switch to an alternative protocol used for the treatment of Burkitt's lymphoma (arm B2: six blocks according to the so-called B-ALL protocol of the German ALL study group).

Patients refractory to or relapsing within two years after treatment according to parts A or B of the trial will receive age-adapted salvage protocols (patients \< 60 years: high-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation; patients \> 60 years: (R-)ESHAP protocol)(part C of the trial).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Aggressive B-cell or T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
* Pathological pre-treatment PET scan
* Performance status ECOG 0-3
* Age 18 - 80 years
* Ability to understand the purpose of the study and act accordingly
* Willingness to use adequate contraception
* Informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* Burkitt's lymphoma
* Primary central nervous system lymphoma
* Previous chemo- and/or radiotherapy
* Other cancer within preceding 5 years
* HIV infection, active viral hepatitis or other uncontrolled infection
* Other medical conditions precluding administration of planned therapy
* Pregnancy or lactation

Primary outcomes:
measure: Time to treatment failure
timeFrame: Two years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Response rate, overall survival, disease-free survival, toxicity, quality of life
timeFrame: Two years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Essen
country: Germany
facility: Department of Hematology, University Hospital Essen
Study officials:
affiliation: Department of Hematology, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstrasse 55, 45122 Essen, Germany
name: Ulrich Duehrsen, Prof. Dr.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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