A Phase 3 interventional study of Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Best Practice in Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma, ALK-Negative, Follicular Helper T-Cell Lymphoma and Follicular Helper T-Cell Lymphoma, Angioimmunoblastic-Type, sponsored by Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. Recruiting at 165 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-14.
Sponsored by Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment
This phase III trial compares the effect of high dose chemotherapy and the patients' own (autologous) stem cells to observation only in patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma who achieved a complete response after initial chemotherapy. Usual treatment after a complete response may include observation or high dose chemotherapy followed by an autologous stem cell transplant, however, it is not known if a transplant if beneficial. Giving chemotherapy before a stem cell transplant helps kill cancer cells in the body and helps make room in the patient's bone marrow for new blood-forming cells (stem cells) to grow. Stem cells removed prior to treatment are then returned to the patient to replace the blood forming cells that were destroyed by the chemotherapy. Giving high dose chemotherapy followed by an autologous stem cell transplant may be more effective compared to observation only in treating patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma who have achieved a complete response after initial chemotherapy.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
I. To demonstrate improvement in progression free survival (PFS) in the autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) arm compared to the observation arm.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To assess difference in overall survival (OS) between the observation and autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) arm.
II. To evaluate the differences in study intervention benefit for PFS and OS by the randomization stratification factors (histology and choice of induction chemotherapy).
III. To evaluate the cumulative incidence of relapse and mortality between the observational and autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) arm.
EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVE:
I. To determine the impact of minimal residual disease (MRD) on the benefit of autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT).
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms.
ARM I: Patients receive standard of care observation on study. Patients also undergo blood sample collection and optional bone marrow aspiration and biopsy on study, and computed tomography (CT) or positron emission tomography (PET)/CT throughout the study.
ARM II: Patients receive stem cell mobilization and then undergo leukapheresis per standard of care. Patients also receive high dose chemotherapy followed by ASCT per standard of care. Additionally, patients undergo blood sample collection and optional bone marrow aspiration and biopsy on study, and CT or PET/CT throughout the study.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 3 years, and then yearly for up to 7 years for a total of 12 years from the date of randomization.
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Inclusion Criteria:
Patient must have proven peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) in one of the following categories:
Patient must have undergone induction treatment with an anthracycline based chemotherapy.
Patient must have achieved radiologic complete remission following induction therapy as defined by the Lugano criteria with a Deauville score between 1-3 by PET-CT
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 diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).
Your pathology report is the document that shows this.
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.
Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Histologically or cytologically confirmed
The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).
Your pathology report is the document that shows this.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Patients receive standard of care observation on study. Patients also undergo blood sample collection and optional bone marrow aspiration and biopsy on study, and CT or PET/CT throughout the study.
Other: Best Practice · Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Procedure: Bone Marrow Aspiration · Procedure: Bone Marrow Biopsy · Procedure: Computed Tomography · Procedure: Positron Emission Tomography
Patients receive stem cell mobilization and then undergo leukapheresis per standard of care. Patients also receive high dose chemotherapy followed by ASCT per standard of care. Additionally, patients undergo blood sample collection and optional bone marrow aspiration and biopsy on study, and CT or PET/CT throughout the study.
Procedure: Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation · Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Procedure: Bone Marrow Aspiration · Procedure: Bone Marrow Biopsy · Procedure: Computed Tomography · Drug: High Dose Chemotherapy · Procedure: Leukapheresis · Procedure: Positron Emission Tomography · Drug: Stem Cell Mobilization Therapy
Undergo ASCT
Also known as: AHSCT, Autologous, Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Autologous Stem Cell Transplant, Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation, Stem Cell Transplantation, Autologous
Receive standard of care observation
Also known as: standard of care, standard therapy
Undergo blood sample collection
Also known as: Biological Sample Collection, Biospecimen Collected, Specimen Collection
Undergo bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
Undergo bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
Also known as: Biopsy of Bone Marrow, Biopsy, Bone Marrow
Undergo CT or PET/CT
Also known as: CAT, CAT Scan, Computed Axial Tomography, Computerized Axial Tomography, Computerized axial tomography (procedure), Computerized Tomography, Computerized Tomography (CT) scan, CT, CT Scan, tomography
Receive high dose chemotherapy
Also known as: high-dose chemotherapy
Undergo leukapheresis
Also known as: Leukocyte Adsorptive Apheresis, Leukocytopheresis, Therapeutic Leukopheresis, White Blood Cell Reduction Apheresis
Undergo PET/CT
Also known as: Medical Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography, PET, PET Scan, Positron emission tomography (procedure), Positron Emission Tomography Scan, Positron-Emission Tomography, proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, PT
Receive stem cell mobilization therapy
Also known as: Chemomobilization, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Mobilization, Mobilization Therapy, Stem-cell mobilization
Progression-free survival (PFS)
Stratified logrank test will be used for the primary analysis of the comparison of PFS between treatment arms. Kaplan-Meier method will be used to visualize and estimate survival function for failure time endpoints. There will be a subgroup analysis for the randomization stratification factors, and other variables measured at baseline.
Time frame: From study randomization to documented disease progression or death, whichever occurs first, assessed up to 12 years
Overall survival (OS)
Stratified logrank test will be used for the primary analysis of the comparison of OS between treatment arms. Kaplan-Meier method will be used to visualize and estimate survival function for failure time endpoints. There will be a subgroup analysis for the randomization stratification factors, and other variables measured at baseline.
Time frame: From study randomization to death due to any cause, assessed up to 12 years
Cumulative incidence of relapse
The cumulative incidence of relapse will be analyzed under the competing risk framework using competing risk regression and competing risk cumulative incidence function plots.
Time frame: Up to 12 years
Cumulative incidence of mortality
The cumulative incidence of mortality will be analyzed under the competing risk framework using competing risk regression and competing risk cumulative incidence function plots.
Time frame: Up to 12 years
Proportion of patients with minimal residual disease (MRD) negative result after autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) in arm B
The proportion of patients with MRD negative results after ASCT will be reported among arm B patients. MRD negative is defined as no lymphoma cell detected.
Time frame: Up to 12 years
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