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Status unknownNCT03315520BeEAC-1Updated May 22, 2018

BeEAC Conditioning Regimen in Malignant Lymphoma Subjects With Indications to Autologous Hematopoietic Stem-cell Transplantation

A Phase 2 interventional study of Bendamustine in Relapsed/Refractory Malignant Lymphomas, sponsored by State Budgetary Healthcare Institution, National Medical Surgical Center N.A. N.I. Pirogov, Ministry of Health of Russia. Status unknown at 1 site in Russian Federation. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-05-22.

Sponsored by State Budgetary Healthcare Institution, National Medical Surgical Center N.A. N.I. Pirogov, Ministry of Health of Russia · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified May 2018), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 8 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Jan 2016, registered Sep 2017).
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
100
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Nowadays there is no randomized trials for comparison the effectiveness and tolerability of different conditioning regimens.

Bendamustine is a unique chemotherapeutic agent that combines alkylating action of nitrogen mustard and the activity of purine antimetabolite. Bendamustine has shown its effectiveness for the treatment of patients with chronic lymphoproliferative diseases such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia and several indolent lymphomas. The literature also presents evidence of the effectiveness bendamustine in patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma who received multiple lines of prior chemotherapy, including high dose chemotherapy and transplantation of peripheral hematopoietic stem cells. There are also data of using bendamustine as a part of conditioning regimen.

In this context, it was planned a study for evaluation the safety and effectiveness of the BeEAC (bendamustine, etoposide, cytarabine, cyclophosphamide) conditioning regimen prior to autologous transplantation of peripheral hematopoietic stem cells for the treatment of relapsed/refractory malignant lymphomas.

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Conditions studied

  • Relapsed/Refractory Malignant Lymphomas

Keywords

  • Hodgkin Lymphoma
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
  • autologous hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation
  • conditioning regimen
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In context

Lymphoma

3,018 studies on the registry are indexed under Lymphoma; 434 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 100 is above the median of 43 across 2,319 interventional studies indexed under Lymphoma.

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Lead sponsor

State Budgetary Healthcare Institution, National Medical Surgical Center N.A. N.I. Pirogov, Ministry of Health of Russia is the lead sponsor of 14 studies on the registry; 3 are open to participants now.

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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. Be willing and able to provide written for the trial
  2. Be ≥ 18 years of age on day of signing informed consent
  3. (ECOG) \< 2.
  4. malignant lymphoma patients with indications to hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Participation in another clinical trials
  2. heart disease:

    • Myocardial infarction during previous 6 months
    • Unstable angina during previous 3 months
    • Congestive heart failure (III-IV )
    • Clinically relevant ventricular arrhythmias
    • interval (QTc) > 460 мс on (calculated using Frederics formula)
    • ≤ 45% on Echocardiogram
    • Atrial Hypotension (systolic pressure \< 86 mmHg) or bradycardia (\< 50 per minute, exclusion - drug-induced bradycardia)
    • Uncontrolled arterial hypertension (systolic pressure > 170 mmHg or diastolic pressure > 105 mmHg)
  3. Severe renal dysfunction (serum creatinine > 250 µmol/l)
  4. Severe hepatic dysfunction (total > 40 µmol/l)
  5. Known history of or active and C
  6. Psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with the cooperation with the requirements of the trial
  7. to drugs
  8. Pregnant or breastfeeding females or males and females with must be willing to use an adequate method of (intrauterine device, vasectomy of female subjects' male partner, contraceptive rod implanted into the skin, combination method - (requires use of two of the following) diaphragm with spermicide, cervical cap spermicide, contraceptive sponge, condom, hormonal contraceptive)
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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.

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.

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.

Allogeneic and autologous transplant

Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.

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.

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.

QT and QTc

On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.

The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
100 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Relapsed/refractory malignant lymphomas

    Malignant Lymphoma Subjects With Indications to Autologous Hematopoietic Stem-cell Transplantation using BeEAC (Bendamustine, Cytarabine, Etoposide, Cyclophosphamide) conditioning regimen

    Drug: Bendamustine

Interventions

  • BeEAC conditioning regimen: bendamustine 200 mg/м2 D-6 - D-5; cytarabine 400 mg/м2 D-4 - D-1; etoposide 400 mg/м2 D-4 - D-1; cyclophosphamide 140 mg/м2 totally, divided in 4 days (D-4 - D-1)

    Also known as: Cytarabine, Etoposide, Cyclophosphamide

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events

    The primary safety analysis will be based on subjects who experienced toxicities as defined by CTCAE criteria. Safety will be assessed by quantifying the toxicities and grades experienced by subjects who have received BeEAC including serious adverse events (SAEs). Adverse experiences will be graded and recorded throughout the study and during the follow-up period according to NCI CTCAE 4.03. Toxicities will be characterized in terms regarding seriousness, causality, toxicity grading and action taking with regard to trial treatment (Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events).

    Time frame: From admission till discharge from the hospital (approximately 30 days)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall Survival

    Time frame: 2 years

  2. Progression-Free Survival

    Time frame: 2 years

  3. Retrospective Comparison of Overall Survival between Carmustine, Etoposide, Cytarabine, Melphalan (BEAM), Cyclophosphamide, Carmustine, Etoposide(CBV) and BeEAC conditioning regimens

    The analysis will be based on comparison of overall survival between different conditioning regimens

    Time frame: 2 years

  4. Retrospective Comparison of Progression-Free Survival between Carmustine, Etoposide, Cytarabine, Melphalan (BEAM), Cyclophosphamide, Carmustine, Etoposide(CBV) and BeEAC conditioning regimens

    The analysis will be based on comparison of Progression-Free survival between different conditioning regimens

    Time frame: 2 years

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • The Federal Budget-Funded Institution National Medical Surgical Center named after N. I. Pirogov of the Ministry of health of the Russian Federation
    Moscow, 105203, Russian Federation
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Martino M, Olivieri A, Offidani M, Vigna E, Moscato T, Fedele R, Montanari M, Console G, Gentile M, Messina G, Irrera G, Morabito F. Addressing the questions of tomorrow: melphalan and new combinations as conditioning regimens before autologous hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation in multiple myeloma. Expert Opin Investig Drugs. 2013 May;22(5):619-34. doi: 10.1517/13543784.2013.788643. Epub 2013 Apr 4. PubMed 23550793 ↗
  • Schmitz N, Pfistner B, Sextro M, Sieber M, Carella AM, Haenel M, Boissevain F, Zschaber R, Muller P, Kirchner H, Lohri A, Decker S, Koch B, Hasenclever D, Goldstone AH, Diehl V; German Hodgkin's Lymphoma Study Group; Lymphoma Working Party of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Aggressive conventional chemotherapy compared with high-dose chemotherapy with autologous haemopoietic stem-cell transplantation for relapsed chemosensitive Hodgkin's disease: a randomised trial. Lancet. 2002 Jun 15;359(9323):2065-71. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)08938-9. PubMed 12086759 ↗
  • Blay J, Gomez F, Sebban C, Bachelot T, Biron P, Guglielmi C, Hagenbeek A, Somers R, Chauvin F, Philip T. The International Prognostic Index correlates to survival in patients with aggressive lymphoma in relapse: analysis of the PARMA trial. Parma Group. Blood. 1998 Nov 15;92(10):3562-8. PubMed 9808548 ↗
  • Chen YB, Lane AA, Logan B, Zhu X, Akpek G, Aljurf M, Artz A, Bredeson CN, Cooke KR, Ho VT, Lazarus HM, Olsson R, Saber W, McCarthy P, Pasquini MC. Impact of conditioning regimen on outcomes for patients with lymphoma undergoing high-dose therapy with autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2015 Jun;21(6):1046-1053. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2015.02.005. Epub 2015 Feb 14. PubMed 25687795 ↗
  • Friedberg JW, Cohen P, Chen L, Robinson KS, Forero-Torres A, La Casce AS, Fayad LE, Bessudo A, Camacho ES, Williams ME, van der Jagt RH, Oliver JW, Cheson BD. Bendamustine in patients with rituximab-refractory indolent and transformed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: results from a phase II multicenter, single-agent study. J Clin Oncol. 2008 Jan 10;26(2):204-10. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2007.12.5070. Erratum In: J Clin Oncol. 2008 Apr 10;26(11) 1911. PubMed 18182663 ↗
  • Knauf WU, Lissitchkov T, Aldaoud A, Liberati AM, Loscertales J, Herbrecht R, Juliusson G, Postner G, Gercheva L, Goranov S, Becker M, Fricke HJ, Huguet F, Del Giudice I, Klein P, Merkle K, Montillo M. Bendamustine compared with chlorambucil in previously untreated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: updated results of a randomized phase III trial. Br J Haematol. 2012 Oct;159(1):67-77. doi: 10.1111/bjh.12000. Epub 2012 Aug 4. PubMed 22861163 ↗
  • Moskowitz AJ, Hamlin PA Jr, Perales MA, Gerecitano J, Horwitz SM, Matasar MJ, Noy A, Palomba ML, Portlock CS, Straus DJ, Graustein T, Zelenetz AD, Moskowitz CH. Phase II study of bendamustine in relapsed and refractory Hodgkin lymphoma. J Clin Oncol. 2013 Feb 1;31(4):456-60. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2012.45.3308. Epub 2012 Dec 17. PubMed 23248254 ↗
  • Visani G, Malerba L, Stefani PM, Capria S, Galieni P, Gaudio F, Specchia G, Meloni G, Gherlinzoni F, Giardini C, Falcioni S, Cuberli F, Gobbi M, Sarina B, Santoro A, Ferrara F, Rocchi M, Ocio EM, Caballero MD, Isidori A. BeEAM (bendamustine, etoposide, cytarabine, melphalan) before autologous stem cell transplantation is safe and effective for resistant/relapsed lymphoma patients. Blood. 2011 Sep 22;118(12):3419-25. doi: 10.1182/blood-2011-04-351924. Epub 2011 Aug 3. PubMed 21816830 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 22, 2018, 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
NCT03315520
Lead sponsor
State Budgetary Healthcare Institution, National Medical Surgical Center N.A. N.I. Pirogov, Ministry of Health of Russia
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Oct 20, 2017
Start date
Jan 22, 2016
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2020 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2020 (estimated)
Last update
May 22, 2018

Study contacts

Vladislav Sarzhevskiy, MD, PhD
Contact
vladsar100@gmail.com
+74956037217
Nikita Mochkin, MD, PhD
Contact
nickmed@yandex.ru
+74956037217
Vladislav Sarzhevskiy, MD, PhD
principal investigator

Oversight

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