Testing Drug Treatments After CAR T-cell Therapy in Patients With Relapsed/Refractory Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma
Eligible age
18+ yrs
Accepts
All genders
Locations
27 states
Healthy volunteers
No
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About this study
This phase II trial tests whether mosunetuzumab and/or polatuzumab vedotin helps benefit patients who have received chemotherapy (fludarabine and cyclophosphamide) followed by chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy (tisagenlecleucel, axicabtagene ciloleucel, or lisocabtagene maraleucel) for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma that has come back (recurrent) or that does not respond to treatment (refractory) or grade IIIb follicular lymphoma. Mosunetuzumab is a monoclonal antibody that may interfere with the ability of cancer cells to grow and spread. Polatuzumab vedotin is a monoclonal antibody, called polatuzumab, linked to a drug called vedotin. Polatuzumab is a form of targeted therapy because it attaches to specific molecules (receptors) on the surface of cancer cells, and delivers vedotin to kill them. Chemotherapy drugs, such as fludarabine 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. CAR T-cell therapy is a type of treatment in which a patient's T cells (a type of immune system cell) are changed in the laboratory so they will attack cancer cells. T cells are taken from a patient's blood. Then the gene for a special receptor that binds to a certain protein on the patient's cancer cells is added to the T cells in the laboratory. The special receptor is called a chimeric antigen receptor. Large numbers of the CAR T cells are grown in the laboratory and given to the patient by infusion for treatment of certain cancers. Giving mosunetuzumab and/or polatuzumab vedotin after chemotherapy and CAR T-cell therapy may be more effective at controlling or shrinking the cancer than not giving them.
Sponsor: SWOG Cancer Research Network
You may qualify if…
- ✓ STEP 1: REGISTRATION: Participants must have a histologically confirmed diagnosis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma or follicular lymphoma grade 3b or primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL)
- ✓ STEP 1: REGISTRATION: Participants with transformed DLBCL must have transformed DLBCL from follicular or marginal zone lymphoma
- ✓ STEP 1: REGISTRATION: Participant must have bi-dimensionally measurable systemic disease (at least one lesion with longest diameter \> 1.5 cm)
- ✓ STEP 1: REGISTRATION: Participants with secondary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma (parenchymal, spinal cord, meningeal, cerebrospinal fluid involvement) must be asymptomatic from their CNS disease
- ✓ STEP 1: REGISTRATION: Participants must be registered for step 1 after they have signed institutional consent for CAR T-cell leukapheresis but prior to the start of lymphodepleting (LD) chemotherapy for commercial CAR T-cell product
- ✓ STEP 1: REGISTRATION: In the opinion of the enrolling physician, participants must be felt to be a candidate for CAR T-cell therapy with plans to be treated with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved commercially available CD19 CAR T-cell construct.
- ✓ Participants must qualify for commercially approved CD19 CAR T-cell therapy per FDA package insert.
- ✓ If the CAR T-cell product does not meet parameters to be given as an FDA approved product (i.e. does not meet specification criteria mandated by FDA and is infused under an expanded access protocol \[EAP\] or single participant investigational new drug \[IND\]) the participant will be taken off of study and no longer be eligible for step 2 randomization
Where it's recruiting
Tucson
Fayetteville · Little Rock · Rogers · Springdale
Costa Mesa · Irvine · Laguna Hills · Orange …
Gainesville
Atlanta
Boise · Fruitland · Meridian · Nampa …
Chicago · Maywood
Iowa City
Kansas City · Overland Park · Westwood
Louisville
Baltimore
Battle Creek · Detroit · Farmington Hills · Grand Rapids …
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · NCT05633615 · last updated 2026-02-02