The goal of this study is to learn about the safety and effectiveness of the combination of tazemetostat pills in combination with mosunetuzumab injections for people with follicular lymphoma who haven't received treatment before. The investigators hypothesize that tazemetostat with mosunetuzumab has the potential to increase the efficacy of the product without compromising the safety. Tazemetostat is a drug that inhibits EZH2, an enzyme known to drive the development of B-cell lymphomas, and inhibiting it appears to have many effects that slow down lymphoma growth and enhance the immune system's ability to fight it. Tazemetostat is FDA-approved in previously treated follicular lymphoma and currently undergoing study in other lymphomas. Mosunetuzumab is a bispecific antibody therapy that is a therapeutic strategy that uses the immune system to fight lymphoma, called immunotherapy. Bispecific antibodies have two ends: one attaches to T cells in the immune system and the other attaches to lymphoma cells, helping guide our immune system to attack the cancer. Mosunetuzumab has been studied in follicular lymphoma that has previously been treated, with positive results. Mosunetuzumab is approved by the FDA to be given intravenously (directly into a vein) but is not yet approved by the FDA is not yet approved as an injection under the skin, which is how it is given in this study. They have not yet been studied in combination.
This is a phase II, open-label study. Fifty patients will be enrolled and treated with standard dosing of SC mosunetuzumab, and with oral tazemetostat by mouth twice daily at standard dosing (800 mg twice daily) beginning at the same time as mosunetuzumab initiation. Response assessments by PET/CT will occur post-mosunetuzumab at Cycle 4, Day 1 (+/- 3 days) and again at the end of treatment. If a participant has a complete response (CR) at Cycle 4 and/or cycle 8, then they will receive a total of 8 cycles of mosunetuzumab. If the patient has a partial response or stable disease at Cycle 4 and Cycle 8, then they will receive a total of 12 cycles of mosunetuzumab. All participants will receive 12 cycles of tazemetostat, unless discontinued from treatment early for disease progression or other protocol-defined reasons. Treatment with steroids, tocilizumab, growth factors, tumor lysis prophylaxis, and antibiotics may be used as per standard of care at our institution. Dose modifications are permitted for toxicity. Correlative studies will be performed prior to and following tazemetostat treatment and peripheral blood collections prior to post-mosunetuzumab treatment, which will give additional descriptive data for use in correlative analyses.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
50
Mosunetuzumab will be administered in weekly dose increments ("step-up dosing") during Cycle 1 and then on Day 1 of each cycle. Mosunetuzumab will be given in 28-day cycles for up to 12 cycles. Mosunetuzumab will be administered SC at the dose of 5 mg on Day 1, 45 mg on Day 8, and 45 mg on Day 15 in Cycle 1. Beginning with Cycle 2, it will be administered SC at the dose of 45 mg on Day 1. Each cycle lasts 4 weeks.
Oral tazemetostat will be administered by mouth twice daily at standard dosing (800 mg twice daily) beginning at the same time as mosunetuzumab initiation until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or consent is withdrawn. Patients will remain on tazemetostat for up to twelve 28-day cycles from initiation of mosunetuzumab.
Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
New York, New York, United States
RECRUITINGNumber of participants who achieve a complete response (CR) by completion of therapy, as determined by the Lugano Criteria
The proportion of patients who achieve complete response as per the Lugano criteria will be calculated and their 90% confidences will be computed with Clopper-Pearson method via exact binomial distribution.
Time frame: Estimated day 336
Number of participants who experience cytokine release syndrome (CRS)
CRS will be assessed per American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) Consensus Grading
Time frame: Day 0 to Day 28
Number of participants who experience Immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS)
ICANS will be assessed per American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) Consensus Grading
Time frame: Day 0 to Day 28
Median Progression-Free Survival (PFS)
PFS is defined as the duration of time from start of treatment to time of progression or death from any cause. Patients will be followed for a maximum of approximately 10 years from the start of treatment.
Time frame: For a maximum of approximately 10 years
Median Overall Survival (OS)
OS is defined as the duration of time from start of treatment to death from any cause. Patients will be followed for a maximum of approximately 10 years from the start of treatment.
Time frame: For a maximum of approximately 10 years
Objective Response Rate (ORR) at the time of therapy completion, as defined by Lugano Criteria
ORR is defined as the proportion of patients who have a partial or complete response to therapy
Time frame: Estimated to be day 336
Number of participants who achieve a Complete Response (CR) per Lugano's Criteria
Response and progression are evaluated according to the Lugano criteria for lymphoma response.
Time frame: For a maximum of approximately 10 years
Median Duration of Response
The duration of overall response is measured from the time measurement criteria are met for CR or PR (whichever is first recorded) until the first date that recurrent or progressive disease or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first is objectively documented (taking as reference for progressive disease the smallest measurements recorded since the treatment started).
Time frame: For a maximum of approximately 10 years
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