A Phase 2 interventional study of Thiotepa and Carmustine in Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma, sponsored by Washington University School of Medicine. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-28.
Sponsored by Washington University School of Medicine · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
A serious consequence of systemic diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is secondary central nervous system (CNS) relapse, which occurs in approximately 5% of all patients. Many CNS relapses occur within the first year after completion of frontline treatment and are associated with significantly increased mortality; thus, it is important to tailor frontline treatment to provide prophylaxis against CNS relapse in those patients who are determined to be high-risk.
Autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) is standard of care for patients with DLBCL who relapse one year or more after first remission, and it has been shown to improve progression-free survival for patients with primary CNS lymphoma.
The four-drug BEAM regimen (carmustine, etoposide, cytarabine, and melphalan) is the preferred conditioning regimen for DLBCL patients undergoing ASCT; however, patients with primary CNS lymphoma receive thiotepa plus carmustine as their conditioning regimen due to its better CNS penetration.
This study tests the hypothesis that consolidation thiotepa/carmustine ASCT in first complete remission will reduce the risk of CNS relapse in transplant-eligible patients with DLBCL with no prior CNS disease at high risk of secondary CNS recurrence.
1,868 studies on the registry are indexed under Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse; 355 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 36 is below the median of 45 across 1,497 interventional studies indexed under Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse.
Browse Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse studies →Washington University School of Medicine is the lead sponsor of 1,803 studies on the registry; 271 are open to participants now.
Of its 329 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 216 (66%) have results posted.
Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.
Screening Inclusion Criteria:
At high risk for CNS relapse prior to start of induction as defined by at least one of the criteria below:
Treatment Eligibility Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria (applies at both screening and treatment)
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.
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 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.
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
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.
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.
Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
* Patients should receive induction treatment with anthracycline-based chemotherapy regimen per standard of care. Between the end of induction Cycle #2 and the end of induction Cycle #4, a PET/CT scan should be performed to assess response. If there are no signs of progressive disease and the treating physician recommends patient is eligible for ASCT, patients should be consented with the treatment consent. Treatment with thiotepa and carmustine may not take place prior to this second patient consent. Within 3 weeks after the end of the final cycle of induction, a PET-/CT scan should be performed to assessconfirm treatment response and eligibility for ASCT. * After signing the treatment consent and confirming complete response (CR) following induction therapy, patients will begin conditioning with thiotepa (days -5 and -4) and carmustine (day -6), followed by ASCT on day 0.
Drug: Thiotepa · Drug: Carmustine · Procedure: Autologous Stem Cell Transplant · Drug: Anthracycline-based induction chemotherapy
Thiotepa will be given intravenously twice daily on Days -5 and -4 over 120 minutes at a dose of 5 mg/kg.
Carmustine will be given intravenously on Day -6 over 120 minutes at a dose of 400 mg/m\^2.
Infusion of autologous peripheral blood stem cells on Day 0.
Also known as: ASCT
Standard of care, not dictated by protocol.
Feasibility of treatment
\- The treatment (thiotepa/carmustine conditioning and ASCT) will be considered feasible if \> 50% of enrolled patients meet the following criteria: * Achieve CR at the end of induction chemotherapy * Remain eligible for ASCT * Collect sufficient stem cells for ASCT (CD34+ cell goal ≥2 x 10\^6/kg) * Complete thiotepa/carmustine chemotherapy and undergo ASCT
Time frame: Through completion of treatment (estimated to be 6 months)
Rate of selected transplant-related grade 3-5 adverse events
Time frame: From start of study treatment through day 30 after transplant (estimated to be 7 months)
Rate of CNS relapse
Time frame: At 2 years post-thiotepa/carmustine conditioning and ASCT (estimated to be 2.5 years)
Progression-free survival (PFS)
Time frame: At 2 years post-thiotepa/carmustine conditioning and ASCT (estimated to be 2.5 years)
Overall survival (OS)
Time frame: At 2 years post-thiotepa/carmustine conditioning and ASCT (estimated to be 2.5 years)
Non-relapse mortality
Time frame: At 2 years post-thiotepa/carmustine conditioning and ASCT (estimated to be 2.5 years)
Plan to share: No
Eligibility is decided by the study team. Share this record with your doctor or contact the team directly.
Contact study teamGet an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.
Sign in to followQuestions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.
Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.
Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.
Studies of the drug tested here: Thiotepa
Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse →
Washington University School of Medicine →