This research study is conducted in participants with previously untreated, high-risk diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Patients with high-risk DLBCL typically have insufficient therapeutic outcomes. Therefore, the addition of novel agents to the currently used induction therapy (R-CHOP) is a rational approach to improve therapeutic outcomes in this disease setting.
Based on pre-clinical and clinical observations, it is hypothesized that durvalumab will have activity in DLBCL because the PD 1/PD L1 pathway is involved in the pathophysiology of DLBCL. In particular, the addition of durvalumab may augment the anti-tumor activity of R-CHOP against high-risk DLBCL sub-types.
The safety of durvalumab has already been explored. However, as there is limited clinical experience with durvalumab in DLBCL, the study is divided into two stages:
- A Safety Run-in Stage to evaluate the safety of the treatment combinations until at least 10 subjects are included in each of the two treatment arms
- An Expansion Stage to analyze the clinical activity of the treatment combinations
Results posted following Primary Outcome Completion date are based on a database cut-off of August 2, 2018.