A Phase 2 interventional study of Methotrexate and Rituximab (R) in Primary Intraocular Lymphoma, sponsored by Peking Union Medical College Hospital. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-04.
Sponsored by Peking Union Medical College Hospital · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
This is a prospective single-arm phase II study, with the purpose of evaluating the efficiency of ZR-MTX regimen (Rituximab, Zanubrutinib and methotrexate) combined with intravitreal methotrexate, then followed by minimal residual disease directed Zanubrutinib maintenance in newly-diagnosed primary intraocular lymphoma. The primary endpoint of this study is progression-free survival (PFS).
All the patients will be treated with ZR regimen (Rituximab 375mg/m2 IV d1, Zanubrutinib 160mg Bid, 21 days per cycle) as induction regimen. The response will be evaluated after 2 cycles of ZR regimen. Patients who achieved complete remission (CR) or partial remission (PR) or stable disease (SD) will receive 2 more cycles of ZR regimen. The patients with progressed disease (PD) will withdraw from the trial and receive salvage regimens. Then 2 more cycle of ZR regimen will be administrated. Patients will be evaluated again, those achieved CR or PR or SD will continue to receive 2 cycles of ZR-MTX regimen (Rituximab 375mg/m2 IV d1, Methotrexate 3.5g/m2 IV d1, Zanubrutinib 160mg Bid, 21 days per cycle), while those PD will drop out. In the meantime, intravitreal methotrexate will be given at a dose of 400ug for 16 doses. After total 6 induction cycles, the investigators evaluate the efficiency again, the patients with CR and MRD negativity (by CSF IL-10 and cfDNA) will stop treatment. Those with MRD positive CR or PR or SD will go to Zanubrutinib maintenance for 2 years or until progression of the disease (PD), unacceptable toxicity, or patient/investigator discretion. And the patients with PD will receive a salvage regimen. During following-up, surveillance ophthalmologic examination, and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans can be performed every 3 months up to the first 2 years, followed by the doctor's visit every 6 months for up to 5 years or disease relapses.
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Newly-diagnosed primary vitreoretinal lymphoma
Exclusion Criteria:
primary central nervous system lymphoma involved eyes and brain
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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.
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 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.
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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.
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.
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
NYHA class (heart failure)
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
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.
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.
Zanubrutinib/Rituximab/IV MTX \& intravitreal MTX Experimental arm will be treated with rituximab plus zanubrutinib (ZR) regimen for 4 cycles, ZR plus iv MTX for 2 cytles and followed by zanubrutinib maintenance for 2 years ( or choose to stop zanubrutinib maintenance if reached CR with negative CSF cfDNA). Meanwhile, intravitreal methotrexate will be given as protocol during the 1st year of treatment.
Drug: Methotrexate · Drug: Rituximab (R) · Drug: Zanubrutinib · Drug: Methotrexate (MTX)
400ug intravitreal injection every week for 4 doses in the induction phase, every 2 weeks for 2 doses as consolidation, then every month for 10 doses
Rituximab 375mg/m2 intravenous infusion d1, every 21 days for 1 cycle. 6 cycles will be prescribed as protocol
160mg Bid, oral. 21-day cycle for 6 cycles in the induction phase and for 2 years in the maintenance phase
Methotrexate 3.5g/m2 intravenous infusion d1, every 21 days for cycle 5 and 6 only.
2 years progression-free survival
2 years progression-free survival was calculated from the date of therapy until death from lymphoma or 2-year follow up without relapsing
Time frame: from the date of treatment to the subject finished his 2 years follow-up phase or the disease relapsed or the death due to lymphoma
overall response rate (ORR)
ORR was calculated by the proportion of patients who achieved complete remission and partial remission.
Time frame: 4 weeks after the end of 6 cycles of induction (each cycle is 21 days).
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Studies of the drugs tested here: Methotrexate · Rituximab · Zanubrutinib
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