This phase II trial investigates how well brentuximab vedotin and nivolumab work in treating patients with classical Hodgkin lymphoma that has come back after initial treatment (relapsed) or has not responded to initial treatment (refractory). Brentuximab vedotin is a monoclonal antibody, brentuximab, linked to a toxic agent called vedotin. Brentuximab attaches to CD30 positive cancer cells in a targeted way and delivers vedotin to kill them. Nivolumab is an antibody that enhances the immune system to better fight Hodgkin lymphoma cells. Giving brentuximab vedotin and nivolumab may be able to defer stem cell transplant treatment and spare the considerable cost and toxicity on transplantation.
Documented informed consent of the participant and/or legally authorized representative
Assent, when appropriate, will be obtained per institutional guidelines
Be willing to provide tissue (either from a fresh core or excisional biopsy performed as standard of care, or from archival tissue) of a biopsy that was performed after frontline systemic therapy, and prior to starting protocol therapy
If unavailable, exceptions may be granted with study principal investigator (PI) approval
Concomitant investigational therapy
Live vaccine within 30 days prior to day 1 of protocol therapy (e.g. measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, yellow fever, rabies, bacillus Calmette-Guerin [BCG], oral polio vaccine, and oral typhoid)
Grade >= 2 peripheral neuropathy
History of prior >= grade 3 hypersensitivity to either brentuximab vedotin or nivolumab
Single group
Brentuximab Vedotin
DrugGiven IV
Nivolumab
Biological/VaccineGiven IV
Progression-free survival (PFS) at 24 months in patients who achieve complete metabolic response (CMR) after 4 cycles of treatment
Estimated using Kaplan-Meier product limit method.
Complete metabolic response (CMR) rate
Defined as the proportion of response-evaluable participants that achieve a best response of CMR with brentuximab vedotin (BV)-nivolumab (Nivo) therapy. Will be estimated along with the 95% exact binomial confidence interval.
Overall response rate (ORR)
defined as the proportion of response-evaluable participants that achieve a best response of either CMR or partial metabolic remission (PMR) with BV-Nivo therapy. Will be estimated along with the 95% exact binomial confidence interval.
Overall survival (OS)
Will be estimated using the product-limit method of Kaplan and Meier along with the Greenwood estimator of standard error; 95% confidence interval will be constructed based on log-log transformation. Median PFS/OS will be estimated when available. PFS and OS will be estimated for the entire cohort, for subgroups defined by response, and for responders who did and did not receive radiotherapy.
PFS
Will be estimated using the product-limit method of Kaplan and Meier along with the Greenwood estimator of standard error; 95% confidence interval will be constructed based on log-log transformation. Median PFS/OS will be estimated when available. PFS and OS will be estimated for the entire cohort, for subgroups defined by response, and for responders who did and did not receive radiotherapy.
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City of Hope Medical Center
Lead sponsor
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Collaborator
