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Avastin Plus Rituximab for Patients With B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

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What is being tested

Avastin

+ Rituximab
Drug
Who is being recruted

Lymphoma

Over 18 Years
+33 Eligibility Criteria

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How is the trial designed

Treatment Study

Phase 2
Interventional
Study Start: March 2004

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Summary

Principal SponsorM.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Last updated: April 5, 2012
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Study start date: March 1, 2004Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

Phase II Study of Avastin Plus Rituximab for Patients with Relapsed and Chemotherapy - or Rituxan Refractory Aggressive B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Bevacizumab is a new research drug that may help to stop or slow the growth of blood vessels in your tumor. These blood vessels are needed by the tumor to grow. Rituxan is a commercially available drug that is commonly used to treat relapsed and refractory lymphoma. Before treatment starts, you will be asked questions about your medical history and about any surgeries you have had. You will have a complete physical exam including blood (around 3 tablespoons) and urine tests. You will have a sample of bone marrow collected to learn if the lymphoma has spread to the bone marrow. To collect a bone marrow sample, an area of the hip or chest bone is numbed with anesthetic and a small amount of bone marrow is withdrawn through a large needle. You will have either a CT scan or a MRI of the neck, chest, abdomen, and pelvis, and you will have a gallium or PET scan. You will be asked about any medications that you are taking, including over-the-counter medications. Women who are able to have children must have a negative blood pregnancy test. Additional blood samples (2 tablespoons) will be collected from you before starting therapy and every 2 months during this study for tests to help your doctors and researchers to learn more about how Bevacizumab works. During the study, you will be given a dose of rituximab by vein once a week for 8 weeks in a row, and a dose of Bevacizumab every other week. The drugs will be contained in a bag and will be given to you through a needle in one of your veins. This method of giving the drugs is called an infusion. The infusion of Bevacizumab may take 1 to 2 hours, and the infusion of rituximab may take up to 3 to 6 hours. This method of giving a drug is called an infusion. In the first week, infusions of rituxan and Bevacizumab will be given on the same day. During the infusion of each drug, you will have your vital signs checked often and you will be watched for any side effects. If you experience side effects, the infusion may be slowed down or stopped until the symptoms have gone away. Within 2 weeks after your 8th dose of rituximab, (4th dose of Bevacizumab) you will have a follow-up visit scheduled to evaluate the status of the disease. During the follow-up visit, you will have a physical exam and blood (around 4 tablespoons) will be collected for lab tests. You will have a CT scan or a MRI, gallium or PET scan, and bone marrow biopsy (if needed). If the disease gets worse or you experience any intolerable side effects, you will be taken off the study. If you are taken off the study or your doctor decides that you should stop study treatment, you will be asked to return to M. D. Anderson for all of the scheduled follow-up visits to check for long term side effects of the drug and to check on the status of the disease. If the disease remains stable or shrinks after 8 weeks of therapy, you may continue to receive Bevacizumab treatments every 2 weeks for a maximum of a total of 6 months. Even if the treatment is shown to be of benefit to you, your doctor may not continue to give you additional treatments with Bevacizumab beyond the total of 6 months. After treatment, you will have follow-up visits scheduled to check on the status of the disease. These visits will be scheduled every 3 months for 1 year, then every 4 months for 1 more year, then every 6 months until the disease gets worse. During these visits, you will have a physical exam, blood tests (around 2 tablespoons), and either a CT scan or a MRI. You will also have a sample of bone marrow collected. This is an investigational study. Bevacizumab has been authorized by the FDA for use in research only. Rituximab is FDA approved and is commercially available. There will be no cost for Bevacizumab or for any tests and procedures that are not considered part of standard of care. Up to 40 patients will take part in this study. All patients will be enrolled at M. D. Anderson.

Official TitleA Phase II Study of Avastin Plus Rituximab for Patients With Relapsed and Chemotherapy- or Rituxan-Refractory Aggressive B-Cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma 
Principal SponsorM.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Last updated: April 5, 2012
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Protocol

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
Design Details
13 patients to be enrolledTotal number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.
Treatment Study
These studies test new ways to treat a disease, condition, or health issue. The goal is to see if a new drug, therapy, or approach works better or has fewer side effects than existing options.

How participants are assigned to different groups/arms
In this clinical study, all participants receive the same treatment. Since there is only one group, there is no need for randomization or assignment to different arms. This type of study is often used to test a new treatment without comparing it to another.

Other Ways to Assign Participants
Randomized allocation: Participants are assigned randomly, like flipping a coin, to ensure fairness and reduce bias.
Non-randomized allocation: Participants are assigned based on specific factors, such as their medical condition or a doctor's decision.

How treatments are given to participants
In this study, all participants receive the same treatment. This approach is often used to evaluate the effects of a single intervention without comparing it to another.

Other Ways to Assign Treatments
Parallel assignment: Participants are split into separate groups, each receiving a different treatment.
Cross-over assignment: Participants switch between treatments during the study.
Factorial assignment: Participants receive different combinations of treatments.
Sequential assignment: Participants receive treatments one after another in a specific order, possibly based on individual responses.
Other assignment: Treatment assignment does not follow a standard or predefined design.

How the effectiveness of the treatment is controlled
In a non placebo-controlled study, no participants receive an inert substance (placebo) to compare outcomes. Instead, all participants receive either the experimental treatment or an alternative treatment (often the Standard of Care). This method allows researchers to compare the effects of the experimental treatment with those of a different active intervention, rather than a placebo.

Other Options
Placebo-Controlled: A placebo is used to compare the effects of the experimental treatment with those of an inert substance, isolating the true treatment effect.

How the interventions assigned to participants is kept confidential
Everyone involved in the study knows which treatment is being given. This is typically used when it's not possible or necessary to hide the treatment details from participants or researchers.

Other Ways to Mask Information
Single-blind: Participants do not know which treatment they are receiving, but researchers do.
Double-blind: Neither participants nor researchers know which treatment is given.
Triple-blind: Participants, researchers, and outcome assessors do not know which treatment is given.
Quadruple-blind: Participants, researchers, outcome assessors, and care providers all do not know which treatment is given.

Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Conditions
Criteria
Any sexBiological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.
Over 18 YearsRange of ages for which participants are eligible to join.
Healthy volunteers allowedIf individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.
Conditions
Pathology
Lymphoma
Criteria
11 inclusion criteria required to participate
Must have bi-dimensionally measurable, recurrent or chemotherapy - or Rituxan-refractory aggressive B-cell NHL (Diffuse large B-cell, transformed B-cell lymphoma, or Mantle cell lymphoma)
Patient who relapse after autologous (not allogeneic) stem cell transplantation are eligible
Patients must have had prior Rituximab therapy, with response duration of at least 6 months to the last Rituximab-based therapy (single agent or in combination)
No anti-lymphoma therapy within the past 3 weeks, and no radiation therapy within 2 weeks

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22 exclusion criteria prevent from participating
HIV positive
History of serious cardiac disease such as myocardial infarction within 6 months of treatment, brady- or tachyarrhythmia, or clinically uncontrolled hypertension (blood pressure >160/110 mmHg)
Active infection or history of opportunistic infection
Pregnant women or breast-feeding women

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Study Plan

Find out more about all the medication administered in this study, their detailed description and what they involve.
Treatment Groups
Study Objectives
One single intervention group 

is designated in this study

This study does not include a placebo group 

Treatment Groups
Group I
Experimental
Avastin 10 mg/kg given intravenously every 2 weeks for 4 doses, and Rituximab 375 mg/m\^2 intravenously weekly for 8 doses.
Study Objectives
Primary Objectives

Response criteria according to the International Working Group Recommendations for lymphoma where Complete Response (CR) defined as "complete disappearance" of clinically detectable disease and Progressive Disease defined by disease appearance by complete blood count (CBC), clinical and radiologic findings, and/or sizes of lymph nodes, spleen, and liver. Response measured from first documentation of response to first detection of progression.

Study Centers

These are the hospitals, clinics, or research facilities where the trial is being conducted. You can find the location closest to you and its status.
This study has 1 location
Suspended
UT MD Anderson Cancer CenterHouston, United StatesSee the location
CompletedOne Study Center