Researchers are looking for new ways to treat follicular lymphoma (FL). A standard (usual) treatment for FL includes a targeted therapy called rituximab and chemotherapy. In this study, researchers want to learn if giving a study medicine called MK-1045 and rituximab can treat FL. MK-1045 is a type of treatment called immunotherapy. The goals of this study are to learn: * About the safety of MK-1045 and rituximab, and if people tolerate them when given together * If people who receive MK-1045 and rituximab have the cancer go away * If people who receive MK-1045 and rituximab live longer without their cancer getting worse compared to those who receive standard treatment (rituximab and chemotherapy)
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
960
Intravenous (IV) infusion
IV infusion
IV infusion
IV infusion
IV infusion
IV infusion
Per approved product label
Per approved product label
IV infusion
Part 1: Number of Participants Who Experience an Adverse Event (AE)
An AE is defined as any unfavorable and unintended sign, symptom, disease, or worsening of preexisting condition temporally associated with study treatment and irrespective of causality to study treatment.
Time frame: Up to approximately 15 months
Part 1: Number of Participants Who Discontinue Study Treatment Due to an AE
An AE is defined as any unfavorable and unintended sign, symptom, disease, or worsening of preexisting condition temporally associated with study treatment and irrespective of causality to study treatment.
Time frame: Up to approximately 12 months
Part 1: Number of Participants Who Experience Dose Limiting Toxicity (DLT)
DLT will be defined as any drug-related AE observed during the DLT evaluation period that results in a change to a given dose or a delay in initiating the next cycle.
Time frame: Up to approximately 36 days
Part 1: Complete Response (CR) Rate
For participants who demonstrate a confirmed Complete Response (CR: disappearance of all target lesions) per Lugano response criteria. CR rate is defined as the percentage of participants who experience a CR. The CR rate as assessed by physician investigator will be presented.
Time frame: Up to approximately 60 months
Part 2: Progression-Free Survival (PFS)
PFS is defined as the time from randomization to the first documented disease progression per Lugano response criteria by Blinded Independent Central Review (BICR) or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first.
Time frame: Up to approximately 63 months
Part 1: Objective Response Rate (ORR)
ORR is defined as the percentage of participants with CR (CR: disappearance of all target lesions) or Partial Response (PR: at least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameters of target lesions) per Lugano response criteria. The percentage of participants who experience CR or PR as assessed by physician investigator will be presented.
Time frame: Up to approximately 60 months
Part 1: Duration of CR
For participants who demonstrate CR (CR: disappearance of all target lesions) at end of treatment per Lugano response criteria, defined as the time from the first documented evidence of CR until disease progression or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first.
Time frame: Up to approximately 60 months
Part 1: Area Under the Concentration-Time Curve at Steady State (AUCss) of MK-1045
Blood samples will be collected at multiple time points to estimate the AUCss of MK-1045.
Time frame: Predose and at designated time points post-dose (up to approximately 12 months)
Part 1: Maximum Concentration (Cmax) of MK-1045
Blood samples will be collected at multiple time points to estimate the Cmax of MK-1045.
Time frame: Predose and at designated time points post-dose (up to approximately 12 months)
Part 1: Trough Concentration (Ctrough) of MK-1045
Blood samples will be collected at multiple time points to estimate the Ctrough of MK-1045.
Time frame: Predose and at designated time points post-dose (up to approximately 12 months)
Part 2: CR Rate at 30 Months
For participants who demonstrate a confirmed CR (CR: disappearance of all target lesions) per Lugano response criteria. CR rate is defined as the percentage of participants who experience a CR by month 30. The CR rate as assessed by BICR at month 30 will be presented.
Time frame: 30 months
Part 2: ORR
ORR is defined as the percentage of participants with CR (CR: disappearance of all target lesions) or PR (PR: at least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameters of target lesions) per Lugano response criteria. The percentage of participants who experience CR or PR as assessed by BICR will be presented.
Time frame: Up to approximately 63 months
Part 2: Overall Survival (OS)
OS is defined as the time from randomization to death due to any cause.
Time frame: Up to approximately 63 months
Part 2: Event-Free Survival (EFS)
EFS is defined as the time randomization to the first documented disease progression per Lugano response criteria by BICR, death due to any cause, initiation of a new anticancer therapy or a positive biopsy for residual disease, whichever occurs first.
Time frame: Up to approximately 63 months
Part 2: Duration of CR
For participants who demonstrate CR (CR: disappearance of all target lesions) per Lugano response criteria by BICR, defined as the time from the first documented evidence of CR until disease progression or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first.
Time frame: Up to approximately 63 months
Part 2: Number of Participants Who Experience an AE
An AE is defined as any unfavorable and unintended sign, symptom, disease, or worsening of preexisting condition temporally associated with study treatment and irrespective of causality to study treatment.
Time frame: Up to approximately 15 months
Part 2: Number of Participants Who Discontinue Study Treatment Due to an AE
An AE is defined as any unfavorable and unintended sign, symptom, disease, or worsening of preexisting condition temporally associated with study treatment and irrespective of causality to study treatment.
Time frame: Up to approximately 12 months
Part 2: Change From Baseline in Health-Related Quality Of Life (HRQoL) on Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lymphoma (FACT-Lym) Trial Outcome Index (TOI)
The FACT-Lym is a 42-item questionnaire designed to measure HRQoL and cancer-specific symptoms in non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients. Subscales include FACT-General (FACT-G), FACT-Trial Outcome Index (FACT-TOI), FACT-Lym total score (FACT-Lym TS), and the Lymphoma subscale (Lym S). The Lym S has a single domain consisting of 15 items specific to lymphoma burden with a score ranging from 0 to 60. FACT-G has 4 well-being domains, physical (7 items), social/family (7), emotional (6), and functional (7), with scores ranging from 0 to 108. FACT-TOI combines FACT-G's physical and functional domains with Lym S, with scores ranging from 0 to 116. FACT-Lym TS combines FACT-G with Lym S, with scores ranging from 0 to 168. The scoring of FACT-Lym is on a 5-point Likert scale from 0 to 4, with 0= not at all, 1= a little bit, 2= somewhat, 3=quite a bit, 4=very much. The higher the score the better the quality of life.
Time frame: Baseline and up to approximately month 13
Part 2: Change From Baseline in HRQoL on FACT-Lym Total Score
The FACT-Lym is a 42-item questionnaire designed to measure HRQoL and cancer-specific symptoms in non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients. Subscales include FACT-General (FACT-G), FACT-Trial Outcome Index (FACT-TOI), FACT-Lym total score (FACT-Lym TS), and the Lymphoma subscale (Lym S). The Lym S has a single domain consisting of 15 items specific to lymphoma burden with a score ranging from 0 to 60. FACT-G has 4 well-being domains, physical (7 items), social/family (7), emotional (6), and functional (7), with scores ranging from 0 to 108. FACT-TOI combines FACT-G's physical and functional domains with Lym S, with scores ranging from 0 to 116. FACT-Lym TS combines FACT-G with Lym S, with scores ranging from 0 to 168. The scoring of FACT-Lym is on a 5-point Likert scale from 0 to 4, with 0= not at all, 1= a little bit, 2= somewhat, 3=quite a bit, 4=very much. The higher the score the better the quality of life.
Time frame: Baseline and up to approximately month 13
Part 2: Change From Baseline in HRQoL on FACT-Lym Physical Well-being (PWB) (Items General Physical [GP]1 Through GP7)
The FACT-Lym is a 42-item questionnaire designed to measure HRQoL and cancer-specific symptoms in non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients. Subscales include FACT-General (FACT-G), FACT-Trial Outcome Index (FACT-TOI), FACT-Lym total score (FACT-Lym TS), and the Lymphoma subscale (Lym S). The Lym S has a single domain consisting of 15 items specific to lymphoma burden with a score ranging from 0 to 60. FACT-G has 4 well-being domains, physical (7 items), social/family (7), emotional (6), and functional (7), with scores ranging from 0 to 108. FACT-TOI combines FACT-G's physical and functional domains with Lym S, with scores ranging from 0 to 116. FACT-Lym TS combines FACT-G with Lym S, with scores ranging from 0 to 168. The scoring of FACT-Lym is on a 5-point Likert scale from 0 to 4, with 0= not at all, 1= a little bit, 2= somewhat, 3=quite a bit, 4=very much. The higher the score the better the quality of life.
Time frame: Baseline and up to approximately month 13
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