Study of Epcoritamab as a Consolidation Therapy in CLL/SLL
A Phase 2 Study of Epcoritamab as a Consolidation Therapy for 2nd Generation BTKi +/- Obinutuzumab in CLL/SLL Patients or Variants of This.
Who can join
As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.
- Age
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Compensation
- Not stated
Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.
What to expect
No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.
What participation involves
- Procedures mentioned: Biopsies
Only what the study's summary and detailed description on ClinicalTrials.gov say. Time periods may describe the whole study or a part of it — ask the study team what applies to you.
Show the study's own words
- "Patients will be assessed for disease response as defined by the iw-CLL 2018 response criteria following completion of cycle 6 and 12 of epcoritamab by peripheral blood labs, CT imaging and bone marrow biopsy for morphology and flow cytometry (if labs/imaging indicating CR) and MRD status through NGS assay (ClonoSEQ)."
- Compensation
- Not stated
- Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
- Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
- Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
- Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.
About this study
In plain language
This phase 2 study tests epcoritamab as an added treatment to strengthen the results of earlier treatment. It is for adults with CLL or SLL, types of blood cancer, or related forms, who improved with their first treatment but still have cancer found in blood or bone marrow tests.
This is a phase 2 study of Epcoritamab as a consolidation therapy for 2nd generation BTKi +/- Obinutuzumab in CLL/SLL patients or patients with variants of this.
Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.
Eligibility
Who can join
- Have CLL, SLL, or a qualifying related form. Have taken acalabrutinib or zanubrutinib, with or without obinutuzumab, as your first treatment for at least 12 months.
- Your cancer has at least partly improved, but a ClonoSEQ test still finds cancer in your blood or bone marrow.
- Be age 18 or older.
- Be able to care for yourself and be out of bed or a chair for much of the day, or meet the study's similar activity score.
- Meet the study's blood count, liver, and kidney test limits. Some exceptions apply for blood counts affected by CLL and for Gilbert's syndrome, a condition that affects a liver blood test.
- If you or your partner could become pregnant, use an allowed birth control method during treatment and for 4 months afterward. If you could become pregnant, have a negative blood pregnancy test within 7 days before treatment.
- Men who are not sterile must not donate sperm during treatment or for 4 months after the last dose.
- Be able to understand and agree to join in writing, or have a legally authorized person give consent for you.
Who can't join
- Have no cancer found in blood or bone marrow after a complete response or partial response in lymph nodes; have cancer cells without the CD20 protein; or have previously received a CD3×CD20 antibody drug, which targets two proteins.
- Have active Richter's transformation, when CLL changes into a faster-growing cancer. Accelerated-phase disease or prolymphocytic progression does not rule you out.
- Have had an organ transplant, unless you meet the exception for no active graft-versus-host disease requiring treatment within 12 months before study treatment. This disease happens when donor cells attack your body.
- Have an immune system disease needing high-dose medicines that weaken immunity; brain or spinal cord disease unless the study doctor allows it; or an allergy to a treatment ingredient.
- Have had a live vaccine within 28 days or major surgery within 14 days before treatment; need warfarin or a similar blood thinner; or have had radiation that the doctor thinks would affect participation.
- Have serious heart disease, including certain heart rhythm problems, heart failure, a heart attack within 180 days, or poor heart pumping function.
- Are pregnant, plan to become pregnant during the study, or are breastfeeding.
- Have another serious uncontrolled condition, such as an active infection, poorly controlled HIV, active hepatitis B or C, or unexplained fever above 38.3°C within 7 days. Other cancers that could affect study safety or results may also rule you out.
Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.
Official eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria 1. Diagnosis of CLL or SLL meeting the established 2018 iwCLL diagnostic criteria or variant of CLL/SLL and has received a 2nd generation BTKi (acalabrutinib or zanubrutinib) +/- obinutuzumab for a minimum of 12 months as first line therapy. a) Note: Variation in flow cytometry is defined as patients who have atypical immunophenotyping for CLL (CD5 negative, CD23 negative or surface expression of CD79b that is bright ) but clinically behave like CLL (leukocytosis, lymphadenopathy and splenomegaly) and have the FISH/Cytogenetics translocations(del 13q, trisomy 12, Del11q) or genomic features (XPO1, NOTCH1, SF3B1, FBXW7, MYD88, BIRC3, TRAF3, NFKBIE, SAMHD1, POT1, HIST1H1E, CHD2, ZMYM3, EGR2 and others) that are suggestive of CLL. 2. Attainment of Partial Response or greater with a 2nd generation BTKi (acalabrutinib or zanubrutinib) +/- obinutuzumab but detectable disease in blood or bone marrow by NGS ClonoSEQ. 3. Age ≥18 years. 4. ECOG performance status ≤2 (or Karnofsky ≥60%, see Appendix D). 5. Patients must have adequate organ and marrow function as defined below: Absolute neutrophil count ≥1,000/mcL, unless if neutropenia is due to underlying CLL bone marrow disease. Hemoglobin ≥8 g/dl unless if related to underlying CLL Platelets ≥50,000/ µL unless if related to underlying CLL Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) (excepting Gilbert's syndrome, who may have a bilirubin \> 1.5 × ULN, per discussion between the Investigator and the UC PI). AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) ≤3 × institutional ULN Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) Calculated GFR using CKD-EPI formula ≥ 30 (See Appendix E) or multiplying the estimate of GFR by an individual body surface area calculated using an appropriate formula and dividing by 1.73 m2. 6. Women of childbearing potential and non-sterile males must practice at least 1 of the following methods of birth control with their partner(s) throughout the study and for 4 months after discontinuing study drug: 1. Total abstinence from sexual intercourse as the preferred lifestyle of the patient; periodic abstinence is not acceptable. 2. Surgically sterile partner(s) by vasectomy, bilateral orchiectomy, bilateral tubal ligation, bilateral oophorectomy, or hysterectomy. 3. Intrauterine device. 4. Hormonal contraceptives (oral, parenteral, vaginal ring or transdermal) for at least 1-month prior to study drug administration. 7. Women of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy result as follows: At Screening on a serum sample obtained within 7 days prior to the first study drug administration. If a urine pregnancy test at any timepoint during the study is positive or indeterminate, a serum pregnancy test will be performed for confirmation. 8. Non-sterile males must refrain from sperm donation, from initial study drug administration until 4 months after the last dose of study drug. 9. Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document. Legally authorized representatives may sign and give informed consent on behalf of study participants. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Obtaining a CR or nodal PR with no detectable disease in blood or bone marrow after treatment with a 2nd generation BTKi (acalabrutinib or zanubrutinib) +/- obinutuzumab as assessed by Adaptive's NGS ClonoSEQ. 2. Absence of CD20 expression on CLL cells at pre-treatment. 3. Received any prior treatment ever with a CD3×CD20 bispecific antibody. 4. Organ transplant recipients are excluded except those with no active graft versus host disease (GVHD) requiring treatment within 12 months of beginning treatment on study. 5. Receipt of a live vaccine within 28 days prior to study treatment initiation. 6. Autoimmune diseases requiring high dose immunosuppressives (e.g., above 20 mg prednisone daily). 7. Central nervous system (CNS) disease(s) unless in the opinion of the investigator these would not preclude the patient from participation. 8. Known hypersensitivity to any of the components of the treatment drugs (see Investigators Brochure for a list of components). 9. Patients with active Richter's transformation. a. Note: the following will be eligible and not excluded: patients with accelerated phase or prolymphocytic progression 10. Patients who have received prior radiation therapy (RT) unless in the opinion of the investigator the prior receipt of RT will not adversely impact the patient's ability to participate. 11. Patients who require anti-coagulation with warfarin or equivalent Vitamin K antagonist. 12. Major surgery within 14 days prior to the first dose of study drug. 13. Patient has significant cardiovascular disease such as uncontrolled or symptomatic arrhythmias, congestive heart failure, or myocardial infarction within 180 days prior to the first dose of study drug, or any Class 3 or 4 cardiac disease as defined by the New York Heart Association Functional Classification or left ventricular ejection fraction ≤ 40%. 14. Pregnant women, those planning to become pregnant during the study, and/or breastfeeding women are ineligible for participation. 15. Patient exhibits evidence of other clinically significant uncontrolled condition(s) including, but not limited to: 1. Known active bacterial, viral, fungal, mycobacterial, parasitic, or other infection (excluding fungal infections of nail beds). No new IV therapy or intravenous antibiotics may be initiated within 2 weeks prior to first dose of study drug. 2. Known poorly controlled human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or active hepatitis B or C infection (active hepatitis B defined as HBsAg positive, or HBcAb positive with detectable HBV DNA load; active hepatitis C defined as HCV antibody positive with HCV RNA positive) 3. Unexplained fever \> 38.3°C within 7 days prior to the first dose of study drug administration (if the fever is considered attributed to the patient's malignancy or an explained infection, the Patient may be enrolled at the discretion of the Investigator). 16. Patients with a prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history or treatment has the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the investigational regimen in the opinion of the Investigator.
Study sites (1)
OH
- University of Cincinnati · Cincinnati, OH 45219Christine Vollmer · Study contact · 5132133203 · mccordce@ucmail.uc.eduZulfa Omer, MD · Principal investigatorMore trials in Cincinnati