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CompletedNCT03302728EpiBrentlenUpdated May 19, 2022

Brentuximab Vedotin and Lenalidomide in Patients With Relapsed/ Refractory T-cell Lymphoma or Hodgkin Lymphoma

A Phase 1 interventional study of Lenalidomide 15mg and Brentuximab Vedotin 1.8 mg/Kg in Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous, Lymphoma, T-Cell, Peripheral and Hodgkin Lymphoma, sponsored by Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia. Completed at 1 site in Australia. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-05-19.

Sponsored by Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
6
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is investigating the combination of Brentuximab vedotin and lenalidomide in the treatment of relapsed/refractory peripheral T cell lymphoma or cutaneous T cell lymphoma or Hodgkin lymphoma.

It is hypothesised that lenalidomide may augment the actions of Brentuximab vedotin in these patient groups. The primary objective of the study is to determine the maximum tolerated dose of the combination treatment, which can be used in subsequent studies. The study will also investigate disease response and survival.

Participants will receive Brentuximab vedotin (once every 21 days i.e. 1 cycle) and lenalidomide (daily from day 1 -14 of each cycle) for a maximum of 48 weeks and will be followed for a subsequent 6 months after the end of treatment.

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Conditions studied

  • Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous
  • Lymphoma, T-Cell, Peripheral
  • Hodgkin Lymphoma

Keywords

  • CD 30 positive, relapsed, refractory
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In context

Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous

554 studies on the registry are indexed under Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous; 63 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 6 is below the median of 35 across 405 interventional studies indexed under Lymphoma, T-Cell, Cutaneous.

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Lead sponsor

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia is the lead sponsor of 82 studies on the registry; 25 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Male or female patients of 18 years or older.
  2. Patient must have a diagnosis of a CD30+ Hodgkin Lymphoma or CD30+ peripheral T-cell lymphoma. Patients with either Hodgkin lymphoma or T-cell lymphoma must have expression of CD30 in ≥10% of lymphoma cells. Patients with CTCL will be considered for inclusion even if CD30 immunohistochemical staining with BerH2 antibody is low or negligible (\<10%).

    1. Peripheral T-cell lymphoma: patients must be considered after at least one prior chemotherapeutic regimen or be considered by the investigator to be not suitable for chemotherapy
    2. Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma: patients must be relapsed or refractory to one prior systemic therapy or be considered by the investigator to be not suitable for chemotherapy
    3. Patients with Hodgkin lymphoma and one of the following:

    i. Relapsed or refractory after at least 2 prior chemotherapy-containing regimens ii.Considered unsuitable for chemotherapy

  3. Voluntary written must be given before performance of any study- related procedure.
  4. Female patient is either for at least 1 year before the screening visit or surgically sterile or if of , agree to practice 2 effective methods of , at the same time, from the time of signing the informed consent through 6 months after the last dose of study drug, or agrees to completely abstain from heterosexual intercourse.
  5. Male patients, even if surgically sterilized, (i.e., status post vasectomy) agree to practice effective barrier contraception during the entire study period and through 6 months after the last dose of study drug, or agrees to completely abstain from heterosexual intercourse.
  6. Performance status of ≤2.
  7. Clinical laboratory values as specified below. Blood tests must be within 10 days of patient registration:

    • >1.5 x109/L, or >1.0 x109/L in the setting of known marrow involvement by tumour.
    • count ≥75x109/L.
    • Total must be \< 1.5 x the (ULN) unless the elevation is known to be due to Gilbert syndrome.
    • or AST must be \< 2.5 x the upper limit of the normal range. AST or ALT may be elevated up to 5 times the ULN if their elevation can be reasonably ascribed to the presence of haematologic/solid tumor in liver.
    • Serum creatinine must be \< 150 µmol/L and/or or calculated creatinine clearance > 40 mL/minute.
    • must be ≥ 80g/L.
  8. Patients must have fully recovered from the acute toxic effects of all prior chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiotherapy (except alopecia) prior to registration.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Female patients who are both lactating and breast-feeding or have a positive serum pregnancy test during the screening period or a positive pregnancy test on planned cycle 1, day 1 prior to first dose of study drug.
  2. Any serious medical or psychiatric illness that could, in the investigator's opinion, potentially interfere with the completion of treatment according to the protocol.
  3. Symptomatic neurologic disease compromising normal activities of daily living or requiring medication/s, including signs or symptoms of Progressive Multifocal Leucoencephalopathy (PML).
  4. Any sensory or motor peripheral neuropathy greater than or equal to Grade 2 at registration.
  5. Known history of any of the following cardiovascular conditions

    1. (NYHA) Class III or IV heart failure (see Appendix 18.1).
    2. Evidence of current uncontrolled cardiovascular conditions, including cardiac arrhythmias, congestive heart failure (CHF), angina, or electrocardiographic evidence of acute ischemia or active conduction system abnormalities.
    3. A left-ventricular \<50%
  6. Any active systemic viral, bacterial, or fungal infection requiring systemic intravenous antibiotics or systemic antifungal therapies within 2 weeks prior to registration.
  7. Patients that have not completed any prior treatment chemotherapy and/or other agents within at least 5 half-lives of last dose of that prior treatment.
  8. Known to recombinant proteins, murine proteins, or to any contained in the drug formulation of brentuximab vedotin or lenalidomide.
  9. Known (HIV) positive.
  10. Known surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive, or known or suspected active infection. Patients who are Hepatitis B core antibody positive with no evidence of active disease, i.e.

    HBsAg negative/ negative hepatitis B viral load, will still be considered eligible for inclusion, but must receive viral suppressive therapy for the duration of the trial.

  11. Active systemic likely to require treatment within the next two years, or previous diagnosis of another malignancy with residual disease. Patients with non-melanoma skin cancer or carcinoma- in-situ of any type are not excluded if they have undergone complete resection.
  12. Previous exposure to brentuximab vedotin.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(22)

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.

Relapsed and refractory

Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

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.

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.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

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.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

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.

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.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

Excipients

The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
6 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Lenalidomide & brentuximab vedotin

    Brentuximab vedotin 1.8mg/Kg Lenalidomide 15 mg

    Drug: Lenalidomide 15mg · Drug: Brentuximab Vedotin 1.8 mg/Kg

Interventions

  • At commencement of study : Lenalidomide will commence at 15 mg daily for days 1-14 of each cycle. Maximum number of cycles = 16. This is a dose finding study so doses will be adjusted depending on toxicity assessment over the course of the study. Dose may vary from 5 mg -25 mg daily depending on dose escalation results and recommendation of safety committee

    Also known as: Revlimid

  • DrugBrentuximab Vedotin 1.8 mg/Kg

    Drug page: Brentuximab Vedotin

    At commencement of study : Brentuximab vedotin 1.8mg/kg IV on day 1, repeated every 21 days. Maximum number of cycles = 16. This is a dose finding study so doses will be adjusted depending on toxicity assessment over the course of the study. Dose may be either 1.2 mg/Kg q21 days or 1.8 mg/kg q21 days depending on dose escalation results and recommendation of safety committee

    Also known as: Adcetris

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Determination of the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs), and recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) of the combination of lenalidomide and brentuximab vedotin

    Maximum tolerated dose, dose-limiting toxicities of the combination therapy, and recommended phase 2 dose, in patients with relapsed/refractory cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, CD30-positive Hodgkin lymphoma and CD30-positive peripheral T-cell lymphoma. The MTD is defined as the highest dose level at which the incidence of DLT was less than 33%.

    Time frame: 70 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. Safety profile of the combination of lenalidomide and brentuximab vedotin

    Toxicities measured using CTCAE V4.03.

    Time frame: 70 weeks

  2. Treatment intensity.

    Treatment intensity defined as the actual total dose received divided by the actual treatment period.

    Time frame: 48 weeks

  3. Objective response rate

    Objective response, defined as achieving either complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) at some stage from time of commencement of treatment until conclusion of period of follow-up (maximum 16 cycles of treatment followed by 6 months of follow-up), or until time of documented progressive disease (defined as clinical and/or radiologic progression).

    Time frame: 70 weeks

  4. Cytostatic response.

    Cytostatic response, defined as achieving complete response (CR), partial response (PR) or stable disease (SD) lasting \>6 months from time of commencement of treatment until progressive disease (PD).

    Time frame: 70 weeks

  5. Event free survival.

    Event free survival (EFS), defined as the time from commencement of treatment to date of early discontinuation of treatment due to toxicity, date of documented disease progression at any site, or date of death from any cause, whichever occurs first.

    Time frame: 70 weeks

  6. Overall survival

    Overall survival (OS), defined as the time from commencement of treatment to the date of death from any cause.

    Time frame: 70 weeks

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Study locations

1 site
  • Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
    Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 19, 2022, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03302728
Lead sponsor
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Oct 5, 2017
Start date
Aug 30, 2018
Primary completion
Aug 2, 2021
Completion
Aug 2, 2021
Last update
May 19, 2022

Study contacts

Michael Dickinson, Dr
principal investigator · Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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