A Phase 2 interventional study of Cognitive Assessment and Obinutuzumab in Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma, sponsored by Providence Health & Services. Recruiting at 7 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-23.
Sponsored by Providence Health & Services · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
This randomized phase II trial studies how well obinutuzumab works as maintenance treatment in patients with central nervous system lymphoma who have achieved the disappearance of all signs of cancer in response to treatment (complete response) or a decrease in the size of a tumor, or in the extent of cancer in the body, in response to treatment (partial response). Immunotherapy with obinutuzumab, may induce changes in body's immune system and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
I. To determine the effect of maintenance obinutuzumab on duration of response (partial response [PR] or complete response [CR]) in patients with CD20+ B-cell primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) who attain PR or CR to first-line treatment with high-dose methotrexate-based chemotherapy.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To evaluate overall survival after PR or CR (overall survival [OS]-PRCR). II. To evaluate neurocognitive function, quality of life, and neuroimaging as indicators of neurotoxicity.
III. Progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) will be calculated.
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
ARM I (MAINTENANCE THERAPY): Patients receive obinutuzumab intravenously (IV) on days 1 and 2 for the first cycle, and on day 1 for the subsequent cycles. Cycles repeat every 60 days for 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
ARM II (OBSERVATION): Patients undergo observation for a total of 2 years.
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A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.
“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.
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.
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.
A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.
Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Line of therapy
A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.
“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
Karnofsky performance status (KPS)
A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.
Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Patients receive obinutuzumab IV on days 1 and 2 for the first cycle, and on day 1 for the subsequent cycles, and on day 1 for the subsequent cycles. Cycles repeat every 60 days for 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Procedure: Cognitive Assessment · Biological: Obinutuzumab · Other: Quality of Life Assessment
Patients undergo observation for a total of 2 years.
Procedure: Cognitive Assessment · Other: Quality of Life Assessment
Ancillary studies to evaluate neurocognitive function at study entry and at 2 years after study entry.
Given IV
Also known as: Anti-CD20 Monoclonal Antibody R7159, GA-101, GA101, Gazyva, huMAB (CD20), R7159, RO 5072759, RO-5072759, RO5072759
Ancillary studies to evaluate quality of life at study entry and at 2 years after study entry.
Partial response (PR) or complete response (CR) duration
PR or CR duration will be assessed using Kaplan-Meier product limit estimates and compared between patients with maintenance versus without obinutuzumab maintenance using the log-rank test. In addition, the Cox proportional hazard model will be used to estimate hazard ratios.
Time frame: From the date of brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) after completion of first-line treatment which confirms PR or CR, to disease progression or death, assessed up to 2 years
Overall survival (OS) after CR
OS after PR or CR will be assessed using Kaplan-Meier product limit estimates and compared between patients with maintenance versus without obinutuzumab maintenance using the log-rank test. In addition, the Cox proportional hazard model will be used to estimate hazard ratios.
Time frame: From the date of brain MRI after completion of first-line treatment which confirms PR or CR, to death, assessed up to 2 years
Neurocognitive function - Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
Will be measured by the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. Scale range 0 to 16 Forward; 0 to 14 Backward. Higher the score means better outcome. Longitudinal data of neurocognitive function will be analyzed using a linear mixed model and toxicity indicators will be assessed using a chi-square or exact test.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Quality of life (QOL) - European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Brain Neoplasm 20-item
Will be measured by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Brain Cancer Module-20 (EORTC QLQ-BN20) questionnaire. Scale 20 to 80 points. Higher score means worse outcome. Longitudinal data of QOL will be analyzed using a linear mixed model and toxicity indicators will be assessed using a chi-square or exact test.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Progression free survival (PFS)
PFS will be assessed using Kaplan-Meier product limit estimates and compared between patients with obinutuzumab maintenance versus without maintenance using the log-rank test. Longitudinal data of neurocognitive function and QOL will be analyzed using a linear mixed model and toxicity indicators will be assessed using a chi-square or exact test.
Time frame: From the start date of first-line primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) treatment to disease progression or death, assessed up to 2 years
Overall survival
OS will be assessed using Kaplan-Meier product limit estimates and compared between patients with obinutuzumab maintenance versus without maintenance using the log-rank test. Longitudinal data of neurocognitive function and QOL will be analyzed using a linear mixed model and toxicity indicators will be assessed using a chi-square or exact test.
Time frame: From the start date of first-line PCNSL treatment to death, assessed up to 2 years.
Neurocognitive function - Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised
Will be measured by the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised. Test evaluates total recall, delayed recall, percent of retention, and recognition. Higher score means better outcome. Longitudinal data of neurocognitive function will be analyzed using a linear mixed model and toxicity indicators will be assessed using a chi-square or exact test.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Neurocognitive function - Grooved Pegboard Test
Will be measured by the Grooved Pegboard Test. Scale 0 seconds to time of completion in minutes and seconds. Higher time to completion means worse outcome. Longitudinal data of neurocognitive function will be analyzed using a linear mixed model and toxicity indicators will be assessed using a chi-square or exact test.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Neurocognitive function - Trail Making Test
Will be measured by the Trail Making Test. Scale Part A: 0 seconds to 100 seconds (time of greater than 100 seconds discontinues the test. Scale Part B: 0 seconds to 300 seconds (time of greater than 300 seconds discontinues the test. Number of errors recorded. Higher time to completion and greater number of errors means worse outcome. Longitudinal data of neurocognitive function will be analyzed using a linear mixed model and toxicity indicators will be assessed using a chi-square or exact test.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Neurocognitive function - Brief Test of Attention
Will be measured by the Trail Making Test. Scale 0 to 20 points. Higher score mean better outcome. Longitudinal data of neurocognitive function will be analyzed using a linear mixed model and toxicity indicators will be assessed using a chi-square or exact test.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Quality of life (QOL) - European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30-item
Will be measured by the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Core 30-item (EORTC QLQ-C30) questionnaire. Scale 30 to 126 points. Higher score means worse outcome. Longitudinal data of QOL will be analyzed using a linear mixed model and toxicity indicators will be assessed using a chi-square or exact test.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
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