Dose-Adjusted EPOCH Chemotherapy and Rituximab (CD20+) in Previously Untreated Aggressive Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Summary

5-Drug Combination Chemotherapy with Hematologic Toxicity Attenuation. Etoposide phosphate, prednisone, vincristine sulfate (Oncovin), cyclophosphamide, and doxorubicin hydrochloride (hydroxydaunorubicin)(EPOCH): Etoposide, VP-16, NSC-141540; Prednisone, PRED, NSC-10023; Vincristine, VCR, NSC-67574; Cyclophosphamide, CTX, NSC-26271; Doxorubicin, DOX, NSC-123127; with Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor (Amgen), Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), NSC-614629.

Timeline

Start

1993-05-08

Primary completion

2024-05-24

Completion

2024-05-24

Publications

• Background Klimo P, Connors JM. MACOP-B chemotherapy for the treatment of diffuse large-cell lymphoma. Ann Intern Med. 1985 May;102(5):596-602. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-102-5-596.
• Background Lai GM, Chen YN, Mickley LA, Fojo AT, Bates SE. P-glycoprotein expression and schedule dependence of adriamycin cytotoxicity in human colon carcinoma cell lines. Int J Cancer. 1991 Nov 11;49(5):696-703. doi: 10.1002/ijc.2910490512.
• Background DeVita VT Jr, Canellos GP, Chabner B, Schein P, Hubbard SP, Young RC. Advanced diffuse histiocytic lymphoma, a potentially curable disease. Lancet. 1975 Feb 1;1(7901):248-50. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(75)91142-3.
• Lai C, Cole DE, Steinberg SM, Lucas N, Dombi E, Melani C, Roschewski M, Balis F, Widemann BC, Wilson WH. Doxorubicin pharmacokinetics and toxicity in patients with aggressive lymphoma and hepatic impairment. Blood Adv. 2023 Feb 28;7(4):529-532. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2022007431.
• Miljkovic MD, Melani C, Pittaluga S, Lakhotia R, Lucas N, Jacob A, Yusko E, Jaffe ES, Wilson WH, Roschewski M. Next-generation sequencing-based monitoring of circulating tumor DNA reveals clonotypic heterogeneity in untreated PTCL. Blood Adv. 2021 Oct 26;5(20):4198-4210. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020003679.
• Kurtz DM, Scherer F, Jin MC, Soo J, Craig AFM, Esfahani MS, Chabon JJ, Stehr H, Liu CL, Tibshirani R, Maeda LS, Gupta NK, Khodadoust MS, Advani RH, Levy R, Newman AM, Duhrsen U, Huttmann A, Meignan M, Casasnovas RO, Westin JR, Roschewski M, Wilson WH, Gaidano G, Rossi D, Diehn M, Alizadeh AA. Circulating Tumor DNA Measurements As Early Outcome Predictors in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. J Clin Oncol. 2018 Oct 1;36(28):2845-2853. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2018.78.5246. Epub 2018 Aug 20.
• Melani C, Advani R, Roschewski M, Walters KM, Chen CC, Baratto L, Ahlman MA, Miljkovic MD, Steinberg SM, Lam J, Shovlin M, Dunleavy K, Pittaluga S, Jaffe ES, Wilson WH. End-of-treatment and serial PET imaging in primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma following dose-adjusted EPOCH-R: a paradigm shift in clinical decision making. Haematologica. 2018 Aug;103(8):1337-1344. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2018.192492. Epub 2018 May 10.
• Wilson WH, Pittaluga S, Nicolae A, Camphausen K, Shovlin M, Steinberg SM, Roschewski M, Staudt LM, Jaffe ES, Dunleavy K. A prospective study of mediastinal gray-zone lymphoma. Blood. 2014 Sep 4;124(10):1563-9. doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-03-564906. Epub 2014 Jul 14.
• Dunleavy K, Pittaluga S, Shovlin M, Steinberg SM, Cole D, Grant C, Widemann B, Staudt LM, Jaffe ES, Little RF, Wilson WH. Low-intensity therapy in adults with Burkitt's lymphoma. N Engl J Med. 2013 Nov 14;369(20):1915-25. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1308392.
• Dunleavy K, Pittaluga S, Maeda LS, Advani R, Chen CC, Hessler J, Steinberg SM, Grant C, Wright G, Varma G, Staudt LM, Jaffe ES, Wilson WH. Dose-adjusted EPOCH-rituximab therapy in primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma. N Engl J Med. 2013 Apr 11;368(15):1408-16. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1214561.

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