Significance of Duration of Maintenance Therapy With Rituximab in Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if an extended maintenance therapy with Rituximab in follicular and a maintenance therapy in other indolent and mantle cell lymphomas has advantages compared to a shorter or no maintenance therapy.

Timeline

Start

2009-04-01

Primary completion

2024-12

Completion

2024-12

Publications

• Background Rummel MJ et al. Bendamustin-Rituximab Induction Followed by Observation or Rituximab Maintenance for Newly Diagnosed Patients with Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia: Results From a Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter Study (StiL NHL 7-2008 -MAINTAIN-; ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00877214). Blood 2012; 120: 2739. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.V120.21.2739.2739
• Background Immunochemotherapy with Bendamustine-Rituximab (BR) as induction therapy for indolent lymphomas results in a severe lymphopenia with low CD4+ and CD8+ counts without an increase in atypical infections. First results of the infectious disease (ID) project of a prospective, randomized, multicentre study (StiL NHL 7-2008, MAINTAIN; NCT00877214). Hematol Oncol 2013; 31 (Suppl. 1): 106 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hon.2057
• Background Rummel MJ et al. Two years rituximab maintenance vs. observation after first-line treatment with bendamustine plus rituximab (B-R) in patients with mantle cell lymphoma: First results of a prospective, randomized, multicenter phase II study (a subgroup study of the StiL NHL7-2008 MAINTAIN trial). DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2016.34.15_suppl.7503 Journal of Clinical Oncology 34, no. 15_suppl (May 2016) 7503-7503.
• Background Rummel MJ, et al. Four Versus Two Years of Rituximab Maintenance (R-maintenance) Following Bendamustine Plus Rituximab (B-R): Initial Results of a Prospective, Randomized Multicenter Phase 3 Study in First-Line Follicular Lymphoma (the StiL NHL7-2008 MAINTAIN study). Blood (2017) 130 (Supplement 1): 483.
• Background Rummel MJ et al. Two years rituximab maintenance vs. observation after first line treatment with bendamustine plus rituximab (B-R) in patients with marginal zone lymphoma (MZL): Results of a prospective, randomized, multicenter phase 2 study (the StiL NHL7-2008 MAINTAIN trial). DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2018.36.15_suppl.7515 Journal of Clinical Oncology 36, no. 15_suppl (May 20 2018) 7515-7515
• Background Rummel MJ et al. Two years Rituximab maintenance vs. observation after first line treatment with Bendamustine plus Rituximab in patients with Marginal Zone Lymphoma (MZL): results from the StiL NHL7-2008 MAINTAIN trial Results of a prospective, randomized, multicentre phase 2 study (a subgroup study of the StiL NHL7-2008 MAINTAIN trial).
• Background Rummel MJ et al. Two Years Rituximab Maintenance Vs. Observation after First Line Treatment with Bendamustine Plus Rituximab (B-R) in Patients with Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia (MW): Results of a Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter Phase 3 Study (the StiL NHL7-2008 MAINTAIN trial). Blood (2019) 134 (Supplement_1): 343. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2019-121909

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