Clinical trial NCT00515554: HD18 for Advanced Stages in Hodgkins Lymphoma
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE3
Conditions: Hodgkins Lymphoma
Keywords: Hodgkin lymphoma
PET
advances stages
Rituximab
Lead sponsor: University of Cologne
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2007-08-13
Enrollment: 1500
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study is designed to test:

1. in patients with negative positron-emission tomography (PET) after 2 cycles of BEACOPPesc chemotherapy: whether the number of cycles can be reduced without compromising progression free survival (PFS) (2 further cycles vs. 6 further cycles)
2. for patients with positive PET after 2 cycles: whether intensifying BEACOPPesc chemotherapy by adding Rituximab improves PFS.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Hodgkin Lymphoma (histologically proven)
* CS (PS) IIB with one or both of the risk factors:

  * bulky mediastinal mass (\> 1/3 of maximum transverse thorax diameter)
  * extranodal involvement
* CS (PS) III, IV
* Written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* Leucocytes \< 3000/µl
* Platelets \< 100000/µl
* Hodgkin´s lymphoma as "composite lymphoma"
* Activity index (WHO) \< grade 2

Primary outcomes:
measure: Progression Free Survival
timeFrame: 5 years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Overall Survival
timeFrame: 5 years
measure: acute toxicity
timeFrame: 5 years
measure: late toxicity
timeFrame: 5 years
measure: CR-rate
timeFrame: 5 years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cologne
country: Germany
facility: 1st Dept. of Medicine, Cologne University Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Cologne
name: Andreas Engert, Prof.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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