A Phase 3 interventional study of Polatuzumab Vedotin and Rituximab in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, sponsored by Hoffmann-La Roche. Completed at 209 sites in 22 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-05-08.
Sponsored by Hoffmann-La Roche · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment
This Phase III, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study will compare the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of polatuzumab vedotin plus R-CHP versus R-CHOP in participants with previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
1,868 studies on the registry are indexed under Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse; 355 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 1,000 is above the median of 45 across 1,497 interventional studies indexed under Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse.
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Of its 330 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 248 (75%) have results posted.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
ECOG performance status
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Life expectancy
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)
The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraindication
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Biopsy and archival tissue
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Live vaccines
Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Investigational drug or device
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ECG (electrocardiogram)
A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Clinically significant
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis B tests
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis C tests
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
HIV
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Participants will receive polatuzumab vedotin 1.8 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) intravenously (IV), placebo for vincristine IV, rituximab 375 milligrams per square meter (mg/m\^2) IV, cyclophosphamide 750 mg/m\^2 IV, and doxorubicin 50 mg/m\^2 IV on Day 1 and prednisone 100 milligrams per day (mg/day) orally (PO) on Days 1-5 of every 21-day cycle for 6 cycles. Rituximab 375 mg/m\^2 IV will be administered as monotherapy in Cycles 7 and 8.
Drug: Polatuzumab Vedotin · Drug: Rituximab · Drug: Cyclophosphamide · Drug: Doxorubicin · Drug: Vincristine Placebo · Drug: Prednisone
Participants will receive placebo for polatuzumab vedotin, rituximab 375 mg/m\^2 IV, cyclophosphamide 750 mg/m\^2 IV, doxorubicin 50 mg/m\^2 IV, and vincristine 1.4 mg/m\^2 IV (maximum 2 milligrams per dose \[mg/dose\]) on Day 1 and prednisone 100 mg/day PO on Days 1-5 of every 21-day cycle for 6 cycles. Rituximab 375 mg/m\^2 IV will be administered as monotherapy in Cycles 7 and 8.
Drug: Rituximab · Drug: Cyclophosphamide · Drug: Doxorubicin · Drug: Vincristine · Drug: Prednisone · Drug: Polatuzumab vedotin Placebo
Polatuzumab vedotin IV infusion will be administered as per the schedule specified in the respective arm.
Also known as: DCDS4501A; anti-CD79b-VC-MMAE
Rituximab IV infusion will be administered as per the schedule specified in the respective arm.
Cyclophosphamide IV infusion will be administered as per the schedule specified in the respective arm.
Doxorubicin IV infusion will be administered as per the schedule specified in the respective arm.
Vincristine IV infusion will be administered as per the schedule specified in the respective arm.
Placebo matching to vincristine will be administered as per the schedule specified in the respective arm.
Prednisone PO will be administered as per the schedule specified in the respective arm.
Placebo matching to polatuzumab vedotin will be administered as per the schedule specified in the respective arm.
Progression-Free Survival (PFS) as Assessed by the Investigator, Using the Lugano Response Criteria for Malignant Lymphoma
Time frame: From randomization to the first occurrence of disease progression or relapse, or death from any cause, whichever occurs earlier (up to 38 months)
Percentage of Participants With Complete Response (CR) as Assessed by Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (FDG-PET) by Blinded Independent Central Review (BICR)
Time frame: End of treatment visit (6-8 weeks after last dose on Day 1 of Cycle 8 [Cycle length=21 days] [up to Week 32])
Event-Free Survival-Efficacy (EFSeff) as Assessed by the Investigator, Using the Lugano Response Criteria for Malignant Lymphoma
Time frame: From randomization to first occurrence of disease progression/relapse;or death from any cause;or other primary efficacy reason that leads to initiation of any non-protocol specified antilymphoma treatment(NALT);or residual disease(up to approx 65 months)
Percentage of Participants Who are Progression Free as Assessed by the Investigator, Using the Lugano Response Criteria for Malignant Lymphoma
Time frame: 24 months after enrollment (up to approximately 65 months)
Overall Survival
Time frame: From randomization until death from any cause (up to approximately 65 months)
Percentage of Participants With CR as Assessed by FDG-PET by Investigator
Time frame: End of treatment visit (6-8 weeks after last dose on Day 1 of Cycle 8 [Cycle length=21 days] [up to Week 32])
Disease-Free Survival (DFS) as Assessed by the Investigator, Using the Lugano Response Criteria for Malignant Lymphoma
Time frame: From the date of first occurrence of a documented CR to the date of relapse or death from any cause (up to approximately 65 months)
Duration of Response as Assessed by the Investigator, Using the Lugano Response Criteria for Malignant Lymphoma
Time frame: From the date of first occurrence of a documented CR or partial response (PR) to the date of progression, relapse, or death from any cause (up to approximately 65 months)
Event-Free Survival-All Causes (EFSall) as Assessed by the Investigator, Using the Lugano Response Criteria for Malignant Lymphoma
Time frame: From randomization to disease progression or relapse, or death from any cause, or initiation of any NALT (up to approximately 65 months)
Time to Deterioration in European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life-Core 30 Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30) Physical Functioning and Fatigue
Time frame: Day 1 of Cycles 1, 2, 3 and 5 (Cycle length=21 days); treatment completion visit (TCV)/early treatment termination visit (ETTV) (up to approximately 32 weeks); post-treatment follow-up (FU) visit (up to approximately 65 months)
Time to Deterioration in Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lymphoma Lymphoma Subscale (FACT-Lym LymS)
Time frame: Day 1 of Cycles 1, 2, 3 and 5 (Cycle length=21 days); TCV/ETTV (up to approximately 32 weeks); post-treatment FU visit (up to approximately 65 months)
Percentage of Participants Achieving Meaningful Improvement in EORTC QLQ-C30 Physical Functioning and Fatigue
Time frame: Day 1 of Cycles 1, 2, 3 and 5 (Cycle length=21 days); TCV/ETTV (up to approximately 32 weeks); post-treatment FU visit (up to approximately 65 months)
Percentage of Participants Achieving Meaningful Improvement in FACT-Lym LymS
Time frame: Day 1 of Cycles 1, 2, 3 and 5 (Cycle length=21 days); TCV/ETTV (up to approximately 32 weeks); post-treatment FU visit (up to approximately 65 months)
EORTC QLQ-C30 Treatment-Related Symptoms Score
Time frame: Day 1 of Cycles 1, 2, 3 and 5 (Cycle length=21 days); TCV/ETTV (up to approximately 32 weeks); post-treatment FU visit (up to approximately 65 months)
Functional Assessment of Cancer Treatment/Gynecologic Oncology Group-Neurotoxicity (FACT/GOG-NTX) Peripheral Neuropathy Score
Time frame: Day 1 of Cycles 1-8 (Cycle length=21 days); TCV/ETTV (up to approximately 32 weeks); post-treatment FU visit (up to approximately 65 months)
Percentage of Participants With adverse Events (AEs)
Time frame: From randomization to the end of study (up to approximately 65 months)
Serum Concentration of Total Polatuzumab Vedotin
Time frame: Pre-infusion (0 hour [hr]), 0.5 hr post-infusion (infusion duration=90 minutes [min]) on Day 1 of Cycle 1 and 4 (Cycle length=21 days); TCV/ETTV (up to approximately 32 weeks); post-treatment FU visit (up to approximately 65 months)
Plasma Concentration of Polatuzumab Vedotin Conjugate (Antibody-Conjugated Mono-Methyl Auristatin E [acMMAE])
Time frame: 0.5 hr post-infusion (infusion duration=90 min) on Day 1 of Cycle 1 and 4 (Cycle length=21 days); TCV/ETTV (up to approximately 32 weeks); post-treatment FU visit (up to approximately 65 months)
Plasma Concentration of Polatuzumab Vedotin Unconjugated MMAE
Time frame: 0.5 hr post-infusion (infusion duration=90 min) on Day 1 of Cycle 1 and 4 (Cycle length=21 days); TCV/ETTV (up to approximately 32 weeks); post-treatment FU visit (up to approximately 65 months)
Percentage of Participants With Anti-Drug Antibody (ADA) to Polatuzumab Vedotin
Time frame: Pre-infusion (0 hr) on Day 1 of Cycle 1 and 4 (Cycle length=21 days); TCV/ETTV (up to approximately 32 weeks); post-treatment FU visit (up to approximately 65 months)
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