FIL Study on ABVD DD-DI as Upfront Therapy in HL.
Hodgkin Lymphoma
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Hodgkin Lymphoma focused on measuring advanced stage (IIB-IV), ABVD DD-DI, PET
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically confirmed classical HL
- Previously untreated disease
- Age 18-60 years
- Ann Arbor stage IIB with extranodal involvement and/or mediastinal bulk, III and IV (Appendix A)
- At least one target PET-avid bidimensionally assessable lesion
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) ≤2 (Appendix B)
- Adequate organ and marrow function as defined below: absolute neutrophil count >1,0 x109/L, platelets >75 x109/L
- Total bilirubin <2 mg/dl without a pattern consistent with Gilbert's syndrome
- Aspartate Transaminase and Alanine Transaminase (AST/ALT) <3 X institutional Upper Limits of Normality (ULN)
- Creatinine within normal institutional limits or creatinine clearance >50 mL/min/1.72 m2 (Appendix C)
- Females of childbearing must have a negative pregnancy test at medical supervision even if had been using effective contraception
- Life expectancy > 6 months
- Able to adhere to the study visit schedule and other protocol requirements
- Sign (or their legally acceptable representatives must sign) an informed consent document indicating that they understand the purpose of and procedures required for the study and are willing to participate in the study.
- Access to PET-CT scans facilities qualified by FIL
Exclusion Criteria:
- Nodular Lymphocyte Predominant HL
- Ann Arbor stage IIB without extranodal involvement and/or mediastinal bulky
- Prior chemotherapy or radiation therapy
- Pregnant or lactating females
- Known hypertension (as defined by the updated Guidelines [76]), cardiac arrhythmia, conduction abnormalities, ischemic cardiopathy, left ventricular hypertrophy or left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤50% at echocardiography.
- Abnormal QTc interval prolonged (>450 msec in males; >470 msec in women)
- Diffusion lung capacity for CO (DLCO) and/or forced expiratory volume in the 1st second (FEV1) tests <50% of predicted not related to impaired respiratory capacity due to airway compression by mediastinal masses or parenchymal lymphoma
- Known cerebral or meningeal disease (HL or any other etiology)
- Prior history of malignancies unless the patient has been free of the disease for five years. Exceptions include the following: basal cells carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, carcinoma in situ of the breast and prostate cancer with TNM stage of T1a or T1b
- Uncontrolled infectious disease
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positivity or active infectious A, B or C hepatitis. HBsAg-negative patients with anti-HBc antibody and can be enrolled provided that Hepatitis B Virus (HBV)-DNA are negative and that antiviral treatment with nucleos(t)ide analogs is provided
- Uncompensated diabetes
- Refusal of adequate contraception
- Any medical or psychiatric illness that could, in the investigator's opinion, potentially interfere with the completion of treatment.
Sites / Locations
- A.O. SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo - S.C. Ematologia
- Università Politecnica delle Marche, Clinica di Ematologia
- Ospedale C.e G. Mazzoni -U.O.C. di Ematologia
- Azienda Ospedaliera S.Giuseppe Moscati -S.C. Ematologia e Trapianto emopoietico
- Centro Riferimento Oncologico - S.O.C. Oncologia Medica A
- AOU Policlinico Consorziale - U.O. Ematologia con Trapianto
- IRCCS Istituto Tumori Giovanni Paolo II
- Ospedale "Monsignor Raffaele Dimiccoli" - Ematologia
- A.O. Spedali Civili di Brescia - Ematologia
- Ospedale Antonio Perrino - Ematologia
- Fondazione del Piemonte per l'Oncologia - IRCCS - Ematologia
- AORN S.Anna e S. Sebastiano - Oncoematologia
- Ospedale di Castelfranco Veneto - Ematologia
- ASST Cremona - Ematologia e CRTO
- Ospedali Riuniti del Canavese
- Ospedale Vito Fazzi - Ematologia
- Ospedale Madonna delle Grazie - Ematologia
- Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (I.R.S.T.) - Ematologia
- Azienda Ospedali Riuniti Papardo-Piemonte - S.C. Ematologia
- ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda - SC Ematologia
- USLL13 - Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche UOC di Oncologia ed Ematologia Oncologica
- Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico di Modena - Ematologia
- Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS Fondazione G. Pascale - Ematologia Oncologica
- I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Oncologico Veneto - Oncologia 1
- Presidio ospedaliero "A. TORTORA"
- A.O. Ospedali Riuniti Villa Sofia-Cervello - Divisione di Ematologia
- AOU di Parma - UO Ematologia e CTMO
- IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo di Pavia - Div. di Ematologia
- AO di Perugia - Ematologia
- P.O. Spirito Santo di Pescara - UOS Dipartimentale - Centro di diagnosi e Terapia dei linfomi
- Ospedale Guglielmo da Saliceto - U.O.Ematologia
- A.O.R. "San Carlo" - U.O. Ematologia
- Ospedale delle Croci - Ematologia
- Azienda Ospedaliera Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova - IRCCS c/o CORE (II piano)
- Ospedale degli Infermi di Rimini
- IRCCS-Centro di riferimento oncologico - UO di ematologia e Trapianto Cellule Staminali
- Policlinico Umberto I - Università "La Sapienza" - Istituto Ematologia -Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Cellulari ed Ematologia
- Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico - "Area Ematologia Trapianto Cellule Staminali Medicina Trasfusionale e Terapia cellulare"
- Università Cattolica S. Cuore - Ematologia
- Istituto Clinico Humanitas - U.O. Ematologia
- Ematologia e Trapianti A.O. San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi D'Aragona - U.O. Ematologia
- Nuovo Ospedale Civile di Sassuolo - Day Hospital Oncologico
- Univ. Perugia Sede Terni - Oncoematologia
- A.O.U. Citta della Salute e della Scienza di Torino - Ematologia Universitaria
- A.O.U. Citta della Salute e della Scienza di Torino - S.C.Ematologia
- A.O. C. Panico - U.O.C Ematologia e Trapianto
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
Comparator arm
Experimental arm
Patients will receive 2 courses of standard ABVD (ABVD-28, d1, d15, cycles of 28 days) and then proceed to interim PET/CT evaluation. Those with a PET-2-negative scan (score 1-3 on 5PS) will continue with additional 4 ABVD courses while those with a PET-2-positive (score 4-5) scan will be diverted towards an intensification phase with either escalated BEACOPP or HDT plus ASCR, according to the preference of the centre. Upon completion of treatment, patients will be categorized for response (Lugano2014) by comparing actual PET/CT imaging with baseline, whether 6 ABVD cycles or ABVDx2 + intensification phase with BEACOPP or HDT/ASCR. A salvage rescue program will be planned for patients with Stable (<PR) or Progressive Disease. ISRT 30 Gy will be delivered to complete responders (5PS score 1-2-3) on the initial bulky site(s), to focal rests in case of CR scoring 3 on 5PS with a residual size ≥ 2.5 cm and to focal rests uptakes in the event of PR scoring 4 or 5, whichever is the size.
Dose-dense and dose-intense ABVD regimen (ABVD DD-DI: intercycle 21 days, d1, d11; doxorubicin 35 mg/m2 DD 1 and 11) is given in cycles 1 to 4 and dose-dense ABVD (ABVD DD: intercycle 21 days, D1 and D11; conventional doxorubicin dose, e.g. 25 mg/m2 DD 1 and 11) is given as cycles 5 and 6). The treatment is not PET-adapted, and only patients with no response or progressive disease at interim FDG-PET as defined by the Lugano Classification (e.g., score 4 or 5 on 5PS with no significant change or with increased uptake matched with baseline and/or new FDG-avid foci consistent with lymphoma) will be diverted to salvage therapy. ISRT 30 Gy will be delivered to responder patients (DS=3), on focal PET-positive rests with a residual size ≥ 2.5 cm and on patients in PR with uptake scoring 4 or 5, whichever is the size.