Brentuximab Vedotin and Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Children and Young Adults With Stage IIB, Stage IIIB, IVA, or IVB Hodgkin Lymphoma

Summary

This phase III trial studies brentuximab vedotin and combination chemotherapy to see how well they work compared to combination chemotherapy alone in treating children and young adults with stage IIB with bulk, stage IIIB, IVA, or IVB Hodgkin lymphoma. Combinations of biological substances in brentuximab vedotin may be able to carry cancer-killing substances directly to Hodgkin lymphoma cells. Chemotherapy drugs, such as doxorubicin hydrochloride, bleomycin sulfate, vincristine sulfate, etoposide, prednisone, and cyclophosphamide, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. It is not yet known if combination chemotherapy is more effective with or without brentuximab vedotin in treating children with high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma.

Timeline

Start

2015-03-19

Primary completion

2021-12-31

Completion

2026-10-03

Publications

• Toner K, Renfro LA, Dave H, Pezzella G, Pei Q, Giulino-Roth L, Horton T, Keller FG, Kelly KM, Castellino SM, Bollard CM. Tumor-specific immune responses and biomarkers in pediatric patients with high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood Adv. 2026 Jan 13;10(1):183-191. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2025016797.
• Williams AM, Rodday AM, Renfro LA, Wu Y, Henderson TO, Keller FG, Punnett A, Hodgson D, Kelly KM, Castellino SM, Parsons SK. Group-based trajectories of health-related quality of life among pediatric patients with high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2025 Oct 1;117(10):2112-2119. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djaf197.
• Tie X, Shin M, Lee C, Perlman SB, Huemann Z, Weisman AJ, Castellino SM, Kelly KM, McCarten KM, Alazraki AL, Hu J, Cho SY, Bradshaw TJ. Automatic Quantification of Serial PET/CT Images for Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma Using a Longitudinally Aware Segmentation Network. Radiol Artif Intell. 2025 May;7(3):e240229. doi: 10.1148/ryai.240229.
• Pabari R, McCarten K, Flerlage J, Lai H, Mauz-Korholz C, Dieckmann K, Palese M, Kaste S, Castellino SM, Kelly KM, Stoevesandt D, Kurch L. Hodgkin lymphoma involving the extra-axial CNS: an AHOD1331, PHL-C1, and PHL-C2 report from the COG and EuroNet-PHL. Blood Adv. 2024 Sep 24;8(18):4856-4865. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2023012346.
• Williams AM, Rodday AM, Pei Q, Henderson TO, Keller FG, Punnett A, Kelly KM, Castellino SM, Parsons SK. Longitudinal Health-Related Quality of Life Among Patients With High-Risk Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma Treated on the Children's Oncology Group AHOD 1331 Study. J Clin Oncol. 2024 Oct;42(28):3330-3338. doi: 10.1200/JCO.24.00038. Epub 2024 Jul 26.
• Parsons SK, Rodday AM, Pei Q, Keller FG, Wu Y, Henderson TO, Cella D, Kelly KM, Castellino SM. Performance of the FACT-GOG-Ntx to assess chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) in pediatric high risk Hodgkin lymphoma: report from the Children's Oncology Group AHOD 1331 study. J Patient Rep Outcomes. 2023 Nov 10;7(1):113. doi: 10.1186/s41687-023-00653-0.
• Castellino SM, Giulino-Roth L, Harker-Murray P, Kahn JM, Forlenza C, Cho S, Hoppe B, Parsons SK, Kelly KM; COG Hodgkin Lymphoma Committee. Children's Oncology Group's 2023 blueprint for research: Hodgkin lymphoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2023 Sep;70 Suppl 6(Suppl 6):e30580. doi: 10.1002/pbc.30580. Epub 2023 Jul 28.
• Hoppe BS, McCarten KM, Pei Q, Kessel S, Alazraki A, Mhlanga JC, Lai HA, Eutsler E, Hodgson DC, Roberts KB, Charpentier AM, Keller FG, Voss SD, Wu Y, Cho SY, Kelly KM, Castellino SM. Importance of Central Imaging Review in a Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma Trial Using Positron Emission Tomography Response Adapted Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2023 Aug 1;116(5):1025-1030. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.02.020. Epub 2023 Mar 2.
• Castellino SM, Pei Q, Parsons SK, Hodgson D, McCarten K, Horton T, Cho S, Wu Y, Punnett A, Dave H, Henderson TO, Hoppe BS, Charpentier AM, Keller FG, Kelly KM. Brentuximab Vedotin with Chemotherapy in Pediatric High-Risk Hodgkin's Lymphoma. N Engl J Med. 2022 Nov 3;387(18):1649-1660. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2206660.

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