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Brentuximab Vedotin and Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Stage II-IV HIV-Associated Hodgkin Lymphoma

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Phase
PHASE1, PHASE2
Status at capture
COMPLETED
Registry last update
2025-08-15

This pilot phase I/II trial studies the side effects and the best dose of brentuximab vedotin when given together with combination chemotherapy and to see how well they work in treating patients with stage II-IV human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated Hodgkin lymphoma. Brentuximab vedotin is a monoclonal antibody, called brentuximab, linked to a chemotherapy drug called vedotin. Brentuximab attaches to CD30-positive cancer cells in a targeted way and delivers vedotin to kill them. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as doxorubicin hydrochloride, vinblastine sulfate, and dacarbazine, 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. Giving brentuximab vedotin together with combination chemotherapy may kill more cancer cells.

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What did the study report?

Outcomes, safety and baseline populations are separate source sections. Quality-of-life measures appear under their original outcome titles.

Who could take part
eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * HIV positive; documentation of HIV-1 infection by means of any one of the following: * Documentation of HIV diagnosis in the medical record by a licensed health care provider; * Documentation of receipt of antiretroviral therapy (ART) by a licensed health care provider; * HIV-1 RNA detection by a licensed HIV-1 RNA assay demonstrating \> 1000 RNA copies/mL; * Any licensed HIV screening antibody and/or HIV antibody/antigen combination assay confirmed by a second licensed HIV assay such as a HIV-1 western blot confirmation or HIV rapid multispot antibody differentiation assay * NOTE: A "licensed" assay refers to a United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved assay, which is required for all investigational new drug (IND) studies * Histologic diagnosis of CD30-positive classical HL as defined by the 2008 World Health Organization (WHO) Classification of Hematological diseases; nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma is not eligible * Stage II, III or IV disease as defined by the Ann Arbor Staging System * Participants must have previously untreated HIV-classical HL (cHL), with the exception of up to 14 consecutive days of steroids, emergency radiation, or 1 prior cycle of cyclophosphamide to reduce tumor burden and improve hyperbilirubinemia in the setting of lymphoma related liver involvement * Normal baseline cardiac ejection fraction \>= 50% * Serum creatinine of =\< 1.5 mg/dL; if creatinine \> 1.5 mg/dL, creatinine clearance must be \>= 60 mL/minute * Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) \>= 1000/uL * Platelets \>= 75,000/uL unless related to bone marrow involvement by HIV-cHL * Total bilirubin must be \< 1.5 x the upper limit of normal, unless the elevation of bilirubin is thought to be secondary to Gilbert's syndrome or combined antiretroviral therapy (cART); if, however, the elevated bilirubin is felt to be secondary to antiretroviral therapy, the total bilirubin must be =\< 3.5 mg/dL, provided that the direct bilirubin is normal and the aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =\< 3 x the upper limit of normal; also, if the elevated bilirubin is thought to be secondary to cHL the same criteria for hyperbilirubinemia should be applied; however 1 prior cycle of cyclophosphamide is permitted in attempt to make the participant eligible; patients should not be excluded from study participation unless dosing cannot be safely established * Female participants must have a negative pregnancy test within 1 week of enrollment and all participants must agree to use two reliable methods of contraception simultaneously if conception is possible during the study and for 6 months after stopping treatment; should a woman subject become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while the subject is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately; the participant will then be removed from protocol therapy; participants who father a child while participating in the study will be permitted to continue with the protocol; the participant, however, is required to notify the investigator if he fathers a child * Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document * Karnofsky performance status \> 30% (given the aggressiveness of this disease and the often severely debilitated nature of the patients at initial presentation) * Measurable or non-measurable (evaluable) tumor parameter(s); non-measurable tumor parameters will be defined as not having bi-dimensional measurements (i.e., gastric or marrow involvement) but can be followed for response by other diagnostic tests such as gallium, PET imaging and/or bone marrow biopsy * Patients already receiving erythropoietin or granulocyte colony stimulating factor (GCSF) for treatment of HIV-related cytopenia are eligible * CD4 count \>= 50 cells/ul * Participants are required to be on antiretroviral regimens that are in accordance with the current International Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Society guidelines concurrently with chemotherapy; the specific agents are at the discretion of the investigator and the use of investigational agents currently available on an expanded access basis is allowed; use of experimental antiretroviral agents or those containing zidovudine (including Combivir and Trizivir) or ritonavir (includes Norvir or Kaletra), cobicistat, didanosine (Videx or Videx EC), or similar potent cytochrome P450 (CYP)3 inhibitors are prohibited; in order to be eligible, participants taking zidovudine or ritonavir, or cobicistat, didanosine, or other CYP3 inhibitors must change to a different regimen 7 days prior to therapy initiation; changes to HAART therapy during the study may be made if medically necessary (toxicity, failure of regimen, etc.); participants must be on HAART at least 7 days prior to therapy * Negative for hepatitis B, or if infected with hepatitis B, receiving anti-hepatitis B therapy; all participants will be required to be screened for hepatitis B; per Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) and Assistance for AIDS Specific Drugs (AASD) guidelines, those participants that show no immunity, defined by the lack of hepatitis B surface antigen antibody, and show evidence of chronic infection (i.e. hepatitis B surface antigen \[HBsAg\]+, hepatitis B core \[HBcore\]+, hepatitis B surface antibody \[HBsAB\]-) will be required to be on anti-hepatitis B therapy during the study in order to be eligible; patients will be permitted to enroll in the study provided normal liver function tests and no evidence of cirrhosis; the exact hepatitis B therapy will be at the discretion of the infection disease specialist or investigator; however all patients who present with acute hepatitis B or show normal transaminases and are hepatitis B virus HBsAg surface protein antigen (HBsAg) positive (+) and immunoglobulin M (IgM)+ for hepatitis core antigen will not be eligible for trial enrollment * Patients diagnosed with hepatitis C who are hepatitis C antibody positive, whether hepatitis C RNA level is measurable or not, must have no evidence of cirrhosis and have liver function tests * Brentuximab vedotin is partially metabolized via the CYP3A4 pathway and is cleared from the cells via the P-glycoprotein pump; therefore, participants must discontinue use of the following agents within 7 days prior to therapy * Strong CYP3A4 inhibitors that treat HIV * Other strong CYP3A inhibitors * Moderate CYP3A4 inhibitors should be used with caution but are not excluded; if 2 moderate CYP3A4 inhibitors are used concurrently, one must be discontinued at least 7 days (1 week) prior to the initiation of chemotherapy * P-glycoprotein inhibitors * If patients are taking any of these excluded medications, they must be discontinued at least 7 days (1 week) prior to the initiation of chemotherapy All concomitant medications must be reviewed by the study chair or co-chair prior to enrollment by email; because the lists of these agents are constantly changing, it is important to regularly consult a frequently-updated medical reference for a list of drugs to avoid or minimize use of Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with prior anthracycline therapy will be excluded * Female participants who are pregnant or breast-feeding; confirmation that the subject is not pregnant must be established by a negative serum beta (b)-human chorionic gonadotropin (b-hCG) or urine pregnancy test result obtained during screening; pregnancy testing is not required for post-menopausal or surgically sterilized women * Medical illness unrelated to HL, which in the opinion of the study physician will preclude administration of chemotherapy safely; this includes patients with uncontrolled infection (including opportunistic), chronic renal failure, myocardial infarction (MI) within the past 6 months, unstable angina, or cardiac arrhythmias other than chronic atrial fibrillation, or second malignancy requiring active treatment * Prior malignancy within 2 years before enrollment other than curatively treated cutaneous basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, anal intraepithelial neoplasia, or cutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma (KS); participants with prior malignancies must have completed all therapy at least 2 years before enrollment with no evidence of disease since therapy completion * Grade 2 or greater peripheral neuropathy * Evidence of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) identified on the pretreatment magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) * Central nervous system disease * Patients with history of John Cunningham (JC) virus identified in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or previous history of PML will be excluded from the study * Cirrhosis secondary to any cause will be excluded
healthy Volunteers
false
minimum Age
18 Years
sex
ALL
std Ages
  1. ADULT
  2. OLDER_ADULT
Treatment arms and interventions
arm Groups
  1. description
    Patients receive doxorubicin hydrochloride IV, vinblastine sulfate IV, and dacarbazine IV on days 1 and 15. Patients also receive brentuximab vedotin IV over 30 minutes on days 1 and 15. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 6 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
    intervention Names
    1. Drug: Brentuximab Vedotin
    2. Drug: Dacarbazine
    3. Drug: Doxorubicin Hydrochloride
    4. Other: Pharmacological Study
    5. Drug: Vinblastine
    label
    Treatment (brentuximab and combination chemotherapy)
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interventions
  1. arm Group Labels
    1. Treatment (brentuximab and combination chemotherapy)
    description
    Given IV
    name
    Brentuximab Vedotin
    other Names
    1. ADC SGN-35
    2. Adcetris
    3. Anti-CD30 Antibody-Drug Conjugate SGN-35
    4. Anti-CD30 Monoclonal Antibody-MMAE SGN-35
    5. Anti-CD30 Monoclonal Antibody-Monomethylauristatin E SGN-35
    6. cAC10-vcMMAE
    7. SGN 35
    8. SGN-35
    9. SGN35
    type
    DRUG
  2. arm Group Labels
    1. Treatment (brentuximab and combination chemotherapy)
    description
    Given IV
    name
    Dacarbazine
    other Names
    1. 4-(Dimethyltriazeno)imidazole-5-carboxamide
    2. 5-(Dimethyltriazeno)imidazole-4-carboxamide
    3. Asercit
    4. Biocarbazine
    5. Dacarbazina
    6. Dacarbazina Almirall
    7. Dacarbazine - DTIC
    8. Dacatic
    9. Dakarbazin
    10. Deticene
    11. Detimedac
    12. DIC
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  3. arm Group Labels
    1. Treatment (brentuximab and combination chemotherapy)
    description
    Given IV
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    Doxorubicin Hydrochloride
    other Names
    1. 5,12-Naphthacenedione, 10-[(3-amino-2,3,6-trideoxy-alpha-L-lyxo-hexopyranosyl)oxy]-7,8, 9,10-tetrahydro-6,8,11-trihydroxy-8-(hydroxyacetyl)-1-methoxy-, hydrochloride, (8S-cis)- (9CI)
    2. ADM
    3. Adriacin
    4. Adriamycin
    5. Adriamycin Hydrochloride
    6. Adriamycin PFS
    7. Adriamycin RDF
    8. ADRIAMYCIN, HYDROCHLORIDE
    9. Adriamycine
    10. Adriblastina
    11. Adriblastine
    12. Adrimedac
    type
    DRUG
  4. arm Group Labels
    1. Treatment (brentuximab and combination chemotherapy)
    description
    Correlative studies
    name
    Pharmacological Study
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    OTHER
  5. arm Group Labels
    1. Treatment (brentuximab and combination chemotherapy)
    description
    Given IV
    name
    Vinblastine
    other Names
    1. Vincaleucoblastine
    2. VLB
    type
    DRUG
Study design
allocation
NA
intervention Model
SINGLE_GROUP
masking Info
masking
NONE
primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Enrollment
count
41
type
ACTUAL
Registered outcome plans (not posted results)
primary Outcomes
  1. description
    Defined as the dose level at which =\< 1 of 6 subjects experience dose limiting toxicity.
    measure
    Maximal Tolerated Dose of Brentuximab Vedotin (Phase I)
    time Frame
    28 days
  2. description
    2-year PFS is determined based on the Kaplan-Meier estimates and corresponding 95% confidence intervals based on standard errors using Greenwood's formula.
    measure
    2-year Progression-free Survival (PFS) (Phase II)
    time Frame
    2 years
secondary Outcomes
  1. description
    Number of Participants who had one or more adverse events
    measure
    Frequency of Adverse Events
    time Frame
    Up to 5 years
  2. description
    Number of participants who achieved a partial response per RECIST v1.0 criteria
    measure
    Partial Response Rate
    time Frame
    2 years
  3. description
    Number of participants who achieved a partial response per RECIST v1.0 criteria
    measure
    Partial Response Rate
    time Frame
    5 years
  4. description
    Number of participants who experienced a complete response per RECIST v1.0 criteria
    measure
    Complete Response Rate
    time Frame
    2 years
  5. description
    Number of participants who achieved a complete response per RECIST v1.0 criteria
    measure
    Complete Response Rate
    time Frame
    5 years
  6. description
    Proportion of study participants who are alive at 2 years estimated using the Kaplan-Meier survival function
    measure
    2-year Overall Survival
    time Frame
    2 years
  7. description
    Proportion of participants who are alive at 5 years using a Kaplan-Meier estimate
    measure
    Overall Survival
    time Frame
    5 years
  8. description
    Proportion of participants who are alive and progression-free at 2 years
    measure
    Event-free Survival
    time Frame
    2 years
  9. description
    Binomial probabilities and their 95% confidence intervals will be used to estimate the response rates (i.e., partial response rate, complete response rate, overall response rate) and event free survival at 2 and 5 years of AVD and brentuximab vedotin for a treatment of patients with stage III/IV HIV-associated Hodgkin lymphoma.
    measure
    Event-free Survival
    time Frame
    5 years
  10. description
    CD4 counts (absolute) at visit 4 (cycle 5)
    measure
    CD4 Counts
    time Frame
    5 months
  11. description
    Absolute CD8 counts at cycle 5
    measure
    CD8 Counts
    time Frame
    5 months
  12. description
    HIV viral load (detectable)
    measure
    Viral Load
    time Frame
    5 months
Full study description
brief Summary
This pilot phase I/II trial studies the side effects and the best dose of brentuximab vedotin when given together with combination chemotherapy and to see how well they work in treating patients with stage II-IV human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated Hodgkin lymphoma. Brentuximab vedotin is a monoclonal antibody, called brentuximab, linked to a chemotherapy drug called vedotin. Brentuximab attaches to CD30-positive cancer cells in a targeted way and delivers vedotin to kill them. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as doxorubicin hydrochloride, vinblastine sulfate, and dacarbazine, 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. Giving brentuximab vedotin together with combination chemotherapy may kill more cancer cells.
detailed Description
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES I. To identify the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of brentuximab vedotin when combined with the doxorubicin hydrochloride, vinblastine sulfate, and dacarbazine (AVD) chemotherapy regimen in the treatment of HIV-associated stage II-IV Hodgkin lymphoma. (Phase I) II. Establish an estimate of the two-year progression-free survival (PFS) for participants with HIV-associated stage II-IV Hodgkin lymphoma when treated using brentuximab vedotin plus the AVD chemotherapy regimen. (Phase II) SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate the toxicity of AVD and brentuximab vedotin with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). II. To estimate the partial response (PR) rate, complete response (CR) rate, overall survival (OS), and event free survival (EFS) at 2 and 5 years. III. To evaluate the effect of AVD and brentuximab vedotin on cluster of differentiation (CD)4 and CD8 counts after cycle 1, 4, at the end of therapy, and every 3 months after treatment completion for one year. IV. To investigate the prognostic value of fludeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scans at baseline, after cycle 2, and at treatment completion, with respect to 2-year progression free survival. V. To evaluate HAART status at baseline and to correlate this with tumor response to therapy and OS and PFS. VI. To characterize the histologic subtypes in HIV-Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) in the highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) era. VII. To assess the neurotoxicity of HAART in combination with AVD and brentuximab vedotin. VIII. To evaluate effect of AVD and brentuximab vedotin on viral load after cycles 1, 4, at the completion of therapy, and every 3 months after treatment completion for one year. IX. To perform pharmacokinetic and immunogenicity studies to determine drug levels during therapy. X. To perform micro ribonucleic acid (miRNA) profile analysis on the HIV-HL tumor specimens and to correlate miRNA expression with OS, PFS, tumor response to therapy, histologic subtype of HIV-HL, and HIV disease characteristics. XI. To perform tissue microarray analysis on HIV-HL tumor specimens and to correlate the markers studied with OS, PFS, and tumor response to therapy. XII. To identify Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated tumor derived deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in the plasma of study participants and to correlate these levels during therapy with disease response and OS. (Phase II) XIII. To identify cytokines in the plasma of participants during therapy that can be used as tumor and prognostic markers. (Phase II) XIV. To assess latent and expressed HIV reservoirs before, during, and post chemotherapy. To understand how cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents affect HIV expression. OUTLINE: This is a phase I, dose-escalation study of brentuximab vedotin followed by a phase II study. Patients receive doxorubicin hydrochloride intravenously (IV), vinblastine sulfate IV, and dacarbazine IV on days 1 and 15. Patients also receive brentuximab vedotin IV over 30 minutes on days 1 and 15. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 6 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 3 months for 2 years and then every 6 months for 3 years.
Source references
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  1. citation
    Rubinstein PG, Moore PC, Bimali M, Lee JY, Rudek MA, Chadburn A, Ratner L, Henry DH, Cesarman E, DeMarco CE, Costagliola D, Taoufik Y, Ramos JC, Sharon E, Reid EG, Ambinder RF, Mitsuyasu R, Mounier N, Besson C, Noy A; AIDS Malignancy Consortium; Lymphoma Study Association. Brentuximab vedotin with AVD for stage II-IV HIV-related Hodgkin lymphoma (AMC 085): phase 2 results from an open-label, single arm, multicentre phase 1/2 trial. Lancet Haematol. 2023 Aug;10(8):e624-e632. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3026(23)00157-6.
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    Rubinstein PG, Moore PC, Rudek MA, Henry DH, Ramos JC, Ratner L, Reid E, Sharon E, Noy A; AIDS Malignancy Consortium (AMC). Brentuximab vedotin with AVD shows safety, in the absence of strong CYP3A4 inhibitors, in newly diagnosed HIV-associated Hodgkin lymphoma. AIDS. 2018 Mar 13;32(5):605-611. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000001729.
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