Rituximab With or Without Lenalidomide in Treating Patients With Previously Untreated Follicular Lymphoma

Summary

RATIONALE: Monoclonal antibodies, such as rituximab, can block cancer cell growth in different ways. Some block the ability of cancer cells to grow and spread. Others find cancer cells and help kill them or carry cancer-killing substances to them. Lenalidomide may stop the growth of non-Hodgkin lymphoma by blocking blood flow to the cancer. It is not yet known whether rituximab is more effective when given alone or together with lenalidomide in treating patients with follicular lymphoma. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying rituximab to see how well it works compared with giving rituximab together with lenalidomide in treating patients with previously untreated follicular lymphoma.

Timeline

Start

2011-02-09

Primary completion

2014-06-20

Completion

2023-01-25

Publications

• Menter T, Tzankov A, Zucca E, Kimby E, Hultdin M, Sundstrom C, Beiske K, Cogliatti S, Banz Y, Cathomas G, Karjalainen-Lindsberg ML, Grobholz R, Mazzucchelli L, Sander B, Hawle H, Hayoz S, Dirnhofer S. Prognostic implications of the microenvironment for follicular lymphoma under immunomodulation therapy. Br J Haematol. 2020 May;189(4):707-717. doi: 10.1111/bjh.16414. Epub 2020 Feb 3.
• Zucca E, Rondeau S, Vanazzi A, Ostenstad B, Mey UJM, Rauch D, Wahlin BE, Hitz F, Hernberg M, Johansson AS, de Nully Brown P, Hagberg H, Ferreri AJM, Lohri A, Novak U, Zander T, Bersvendsen H, Bargetzi M, Mingrone W, Krasniqi F, Dirnhofer S, Hayoz S, Hawle H, Vilei SB, Ghielmini M, Kimby E; Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research and the Nordic Lymphoma Group. Short regimen of rituximab plus lenalidomide in follicular lymphoma patients in need of first-line therapy. Blood. 2019 Jul 25;134(4):353-362. doi: 10.1182/blood-2018-10-879643. Epub 2019 May 17.

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