Enasidenib with or without Rituximab for the Treatment of Relapsed and Refractory IDH2-Mutant Angioimmunoblastic T-cell Lymphoma
This phase II trial tests the safety, side effects, and effectiveness of enasidenib with or without rituximab in treating patients with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL) that has an isocitrate dehydrogenase type 2 (IDH2) gene mutation and that has come back after a period of improvement (relapsed) or that has not responded to previous treatment (refractory). Enasidenib is in a class of drugs called small-molecule inhibitors. The molecules that make up enasidenib are small enough to enter cells easily, where they can affect other molecules, including proteins. Enasidenib works by blocking the mutated IDH2 protein. When IDH2 proteins are mutated, they can play a role in low blood cell counts and the growth of cancer cells. By blocking the mutated IDH2 protein, enasidenib may improve blood cell counts and stop or slow the growth of cancer cells. Rituximab is a monoclonal antibody. It binds to a protein called CD20, which is found on B cells (a type of white blood cell) and some types of cancer cells. This may help the immune system kill cancer cells. Some people with AITL also have B-cell lymphoproliferation (a condition in the blood and/or lymph nodes involving uncontrolled growth of B lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell) or Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated disease. Rituximab is often used to treat these conditions during treatment for AITL. Giving enasidenib with or without rituximab may be safe, tolerable, and/or effective in treating patients with relapsed or refractory IDH2 mutated AITL.
Inclusion Criteria
- SCREENING COHORT (NON-MSK PATIENTS ONLY): Age ≥ 18 years at time of consent
- SCREENING COHORT (NON-MSK PATIENTS ONLY): Has freely given written informed consent to participate in the study
- TREATMENT COHORT: Pathologically-confirmed AITL at the enrolling institution, with confirmed IDH2 mutation (by MSK droplet digital [dd]PCR). For relapsed/refractory (R/R) patients, disease must have relapsed or progressed after at least one systemic therapy, diagnostic tumor samples have at least 5% tumor
- TREATMENT COHORT: Age ≥ 18 years at time of enrollment
- TREATMENT COHORT: Previous systemic anti-cancer therapy for AITL must have been discontinued at least 2 weeks or 5 half-lives (whichever is longer) prior to treatment * Patients who have received localized radiation therapy (RT) as part of their immediate prior therapy may be allowed to enroll with shorter washout period after discussion with the MSKCC principal investigator * Systemic corticosteroids must be tapered to 25 mg/day prednisone (or equivalent) upon start of investigational treatment * Topical steroids for treating cutaneous involvement of AITL is permitted
- TREATMENT COHORT: Performance status, as assessed in the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) grading system, ≤ 2
- TREATMENT COHORT: Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1.0 K/uL or ≥ 0.5 K/uL if due to lymphoma
- TREATMENT COHORT: Platelet count ≥ 80 K/ul or ≥ 50 K/ul if due to lymphoma
- TREATMENT COHORT: Calculated creatinine clearance ≥ 30 mL/min by the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) glomerular filtration rate
- TREATMENT COHORT: Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) or ≤ 3 x ULN if documented hepatic involvement with lymphoma, or ≤ 5 x ULN if history of Gilbert’s syndrome
- TREATMENT COHORT: Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 3 x ULN; ≤ 5 x ULN if due to lymphoma involvement
- TREATMENT COHORT: Measurable disease, defined by either of: * Revised International Working Group Classification for systemic lymphoma * Atypical T lymphocytes quantifiable by flow cytometry or morphology in the peripheral blood or bone marrow
- TREATMENT COHORT: Women of reproductive potential must have a negative serum or urine beta human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-hCG) pregnancy test. All women of reproductive potential must agree to use adequate methods of birth control throughout the study and for 30 days after the last dose of study drug. A woman of reproductive potential is a sexually mature woman who: has not undergone a hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy; or has not been naturally postmenopausal for at least 24 consecutive months (i.e., has had menses at any time in the preceding 24 consecutive months)
- TREATMENT COHORT: Women must agree to not breastfeed during the study period
- TREATMENT COHORT: Male subjects must agree to practice true abstinence from sexual intercourse or to the use of highly effective contraceptive methods with non-pregnant female partners of childbearing potential at screening and throughout the course of the study, and should avoid conception with their partners during the course of the study and for 4 months following the last study treatment
- TREATMENT COHORT: Subject is willing and able to adhere to the study visit schedule and other protocol requirements
Exclusion Criteria
- Any serious medical condition, laboratory abnormality, or psychiatric illness that would prevent the subject from signing the informed consent form
- On immunosuppressive therapy post-allogeneic stem cell transplantation at the time of screening, or with clinically significant graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). The use of a stable dose of oral steroid post-hematopoietic cell transplantation (HSCT) and/or topical steroids for ongoing skin GVHD is permitted after discussion with the study principal investigator (PI)
- Subject has persistent, clinically significant non-hematologic toxicities grade > 1 or not to baseline level from prior therapies besides alopecia or neuropathy
- Pregnant women
- History of chronic liver disease, veno-occlusive disease, or alcohol abuse
- Administration of a live vaccine within 6 weeks of first dose of study drug
- Prior surgery or gastrointestinal condition that may adversely affect drug absorption (e.g., gastric bypass surgery, gastrectomy)
- Patients with HIV infection with detectable viral load, CD4 count < 200, or not taking anti-retroviral medications
- Patients with chronic hepatitis B or C as defined by positive hepatitis B or C serology: * Subjects with a negative hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and a positive hepatitis B core antibody (HBcAb) require an undetectable/negative hepatitis B DNA test (e.g., polymerase chain reaction [PCR] test) to be enrolled, and will require prophylactic antiviral treatment according to institutional standards of care initiated prior to the first dose of study drug, and continued until approximately 18 months after completion of study drug(s) if rituximab is utilized * Patients who are hepatitis C antibody positive with negative PCR may enroll
- Subjects with active cytomegalovirus (CMV) (defined as positive serum CMV PCR with clinical manifestations consistent with active CMV infection) and requiring therapy. Carriers (low-level positivity by PCR and without evidence of CMV disease) will be monitored per institutional guidelines when such guidelines exist or individual physician practice in the absence of formal guidelines to ensure stability in the PCR level over time and continued absence of CMV disease manifestations
- Receiving therapy for another primary malignancy (other than T-cell lymphoma) * Patients with more than one type of lymphoma may be enrolled after discussion with the MSK principal investigator * Early-stage cutaneous basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas are permissible * Adjuvant or maintenance therapy to reduce the risk of recurrence of other malignancy is potentially permissible after discussion with the MSK principal investigator
- Known central nervous system or meningeal involvement by AITL (in the absence of symptoms, investigation into central nervous system involvement is not required)
- Subject has active uncontrolled systemic fungal, bacterial, or viral infection (defined as ongoing signs/symptoms related to the infection without improvement despite appropriate antibiotics, antiviral therapy, and/or other treatment)
- Subject has significant active cardiac disease within 6 months prior to the start of study treatment, including New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III or IV congestive heart failure; acute coronary syndrome (ACS); and/or stroke; or left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 40% by echocardiogram (ECHO) or multi-gated acquisition (MUGA) scan obtained within 28 days prior to the start of study treatment
- Prior use of enasidenib
- Subjects taking the following sensitive cytochrome P450 (CYP) substrate medications with narrow therapeutic ranges are excluded from enrollment the study unless they can be safely rotated to other medications within > 4 half-lives prior to cycle 1 day 1 (C1D1): warfarin and phenytoin (CYP2C9), S-mephenytoin (CYP2C19), thioridazine (CYP2D6), theophylline and tizanidine (CYP1A2)
- Subjects taking the P-glycoprotein (P-gp)- and breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) transporter-sensitive substrates digoxin and rosuvastatin should be counseled with pharmacy input regarding drug-drug interactions.: * Digoxin is acceptable with dose modification after consulting with a pharmacist * Patients taking rosuvastatin should be excluded from the study unless they can safely be rotated to alternative medications within > 4 half-lives prior to C1D1
- Caution should be exercised on patients on medications that are substrates for UGT1A1 (including but not limited to ezetimibe, raloxifene, and raltegravir). Such patients shall rotate to alternate therapies, or reduce doses of these medications in consultation with the prescribing provider and/or a consulting pharmacist. Close monitoring for adverse events shall be pursued in these instances
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United States
New Jersey
Basking Ridge
Middletown
Montvale
New York
Commack
New York
Uniondale
West Harrison
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
I. To evaluate toxicities associated with enasidenib in AITL with and without rituximab.
II. To estimate the response rate of enasidenib.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To evaluate biomarkers predictive of response to enasidenib, including metabolic, genomic, epigenetic, and patient-level characteristics:
Ia. Oncometabolite (especially 2-hydroxyglutarate) measurement at baseline, on treatment, and at progression, performed by the Intlekofer Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) for all study participants;
Ib. Single-cell multiomic sequencing, performed in conjunction with the Single-Cell Research Initiative at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) for all study participants with sufficient tumor material; for patients with insufficient tumor material for this assay, an alternative transcriptomic assay requiring less cellular/nuclear input will be pursued;
Ic. Cell-free deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) (cfDNA) sequencing performed in conjunction with Doctor (Dr.) Arcila and the Chief Medical Officer (CMO);
Id. Mutational testing per institutional guidelines for baseline and at-progression targeted DNA sequencing.
II. To evaluate the effect of enasidenib treatment on co-existing EBV-positive B-cell subpopulation, when present, through:
IIa. Baseline and serial EBV polymerase chain reaction (PCR): evaluating whether changes in EBV PCR (both continuous logarithmic scale and dichotomized positive/negative) correlate with disease response or progression;
IIb. Baseline Epstein-Barr virus early ribonucleic acid (RNA) (EBER) staining on biopsy samples; B-cell lineage and EBER staining on biopsy samples obtained at progression, when feasible; at progression, what is the EBER staining pattern in the tumor and how does this relate to results obtained prior to study treatment and treatments received.
OUTLINE:
Patients receive enasidenib orally (PO) once daily (QD) on days 1-28 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with B-cell lymphoproliferation also receive rituximab intravenously (IV) over 1.5-6.5 hours on days 1, 8, 15 and 22 of cycle 1 and on day 1 of remaining cycles. Cycles repeat every 28 days for up to 4 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. If B-cell proliferation persists after 4 cycles, patients may continue receiving rituximab IV monthly until no evidence of B-cell lymphoproliferation is seen. Patients undergo blood sample collection, biopsy, and positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) or CT throughout the study. Additionally, patients may also undergo bone marrow biopsy throughout the study.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 28 days.
Trial PhasePhase II
Trial Typetreatment
Lead OrganizationMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Principal InvestigatorZachary D. Epstein-Peterson
- Primary ID23-269
- Secondary IDsNCI-2025-00035
- ClinicalTrials.gov IDNCT06756308