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NCT05991388RecruitingPhase 2/3

A Global Study of Novel Agents in Paediatric and Adolescent Relapsed and Refractory B-cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 20 Feb 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The Glo-BNHL trial is trying to find better medicines for children and young people with B-cell non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (B-NHL) that does not go away (refractory B-NHL) or does but comes back again (relapsed B-NHL). B-NHL is a type of cancer that develops inside or outside of lymph nodes (glands) and organs such as the liver or spleen. Examples of B-NHL are Burkitt Lymphoma and Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma, which may be other names used to describe this type of cancer. It is very difficult to cure relapsed or refractory B-NHL. The medicines used now are very powerful with many side effects and only cure around 30 in every 100 children treated. It is very important that investigators quickly find better medicines for these children and young people. The Glo-BNHL trial will include three groups of children and young people, each given a new medicine (either alone or with chemotherapy). The investigators are looking to make sure the new medicines are safe and that they work to treat the cancer. If the medicine in one group does not work for a child in the trial, then they may be able to join a different group to have another new medicine. Experts from around the world will carefully pick the medicines most likely to be helpful to be part of the trial. If one of the new medicines seems not to be working as well as hoped then the investigators will take it out of the trial as soon as possible. This will let other new medicines be added to the trial and tested. If a medicine does seem to be working well, then it will continue in the trial to make sure it really is the most useful medicine available. Children from around the world will be invited to take part in the trial. The investigators will then check on them for at least two years after they finish the trial treatment to look for possible side effects of the new medicine.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 2/3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
210 (estimated)
First submitted
24 Jul 2023
Start date
2 May 2024
Primary completion date
1 May 2031
Lead sponsor
University of Birmingham
NCT number
NCT05991388
EU CT number
2024-510575-38-00

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 2/3
  • Planned participants: 210
  • From 2 May 2024 to the primary completion date, 1 May 2031
  • 17 sites in 9 countries
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Patients within:
    • 90 days after an allogenic HSCT procedure
    • 45 days after an autologous HSCT procedure
    • 28 days of experiencing graft versus host disease (GvHD) requiring systemic therapy, and/or immunosuppressive treatment
    • 14 days of previous investigational treatment
    • 28 days of receiving craniospinal radiation; or 14 days of any other radiation
    • For patients who have received any CAR T-cell therapy or other cellular therapies, see treatment arm specific eligibility criteria
  • Patients who have ongoing acute toxicities from most recent lymphoma directed therapy
  • Uncontrolled concomitant infection. Severe infection (such as sepsis, pneumonia, etc.) should be clinically controlled at the time of trial entry
  • Live vaccine within 28 days prior to trial entry
  • Patients within 28 days of any CAR-T cell therapy or other cellular therapies
  • Prior treatment with CD20 x CD3 bispecific therapy
  • Patients within 42 days of any CAR-T cell therapy or other cellular therapies
  • Steroid treatment for more than a total of seven days in the 14 days prior to trial entry

Other illness

  • Patients with known DNA repair disorder or known primary immunodeficiency
  • Known HIV positivity
  • Hepatitis B carrier status, history of Hepatitis B Virus or positive serology. A patient is considered as a Hepatitis B Virus carrier or to have (had) Hepatitis B Virus infection in case of:
    • Unimmunized and HBsAg and/or anti-HBs antibody and/or anti- HBc antibody positive,
    • Immunized and HBsAg and/or anti-HBc antibody positive.
  • Known history of hypersensitivity to any of the treatments or excipients
  • Central Nervous System (CNS) only disease
  • Known CD20 negative disease at initial diagnosis
  • Seizure within the last 12 months
  • Known hypersensitivity to both allopurinol and rasburicase

Lab values

  • Left ventricular shortening fraction (LVSF) \<27% or left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) \<50%, as determined by ECHO or MUGA, any evidence of pericardial effusion (except trace or physiological) as determined by an ECHO, and any clinically significant arrhythmias

Other

  • B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (B-ALL)/B-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma (B-LBL)
  • Patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding (exclusively or partially)
  • Patients who cannot regularly be followed up in accordance with the protocol due to psychological, social, geographical or other issues
  • Patients for whom non-compliance with treatment or trial procedures is expected
  • Clinically significant (Grade ≥2) third space fluid accumulation (i.e., ascites requiring drainage or pleural effusion that is either requiring drainage or associated with shortness of breath)

Who the study is looking for

  • Histologically proven mature B-NHL (Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL), Burkitt Lymphoma/Leukaemia or atypical Burkitt/Burkitt-like lymphoma, primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (PMLBL), and mature B-NHL/Not Otherwise Specified (NOS)) at initial diagnosis
  • Radiologically and/or histologically proven B-NHL in first relapse (only one prior line of therapy) or subsequent relapse (more than one prior line of therapy) or refractory(\*) B-NHL. (Note: relapses following prior targeted therapy must have continuing target positivity, confirmed by an established method).
  • If relapse occurs more than two years after previous therapy, a biopsy must be performed
  • Evaluable disease as per the international paediatric non-Hodgkin Lymphoma response criteria, including:
    • at least one bi-dimensionally measurable nodal lesion \>1.5 cm in its longest dimension;
    • or at least one bi-dimensionally measurable extra-nodal lesion \>1.0 cm in its longest dimension on computerised tomography (CT) or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI);
    • or bone marrow involvement (≥25% involvement from bone marrow, if only site of disease. Any standard method of assessment is acceptable i.e. cytomorphology, flow cytometry and/or immunohistochemistry);
    • or, dependent on treatment arm, evaluable Central Nervous System (CNS) only disease (evaluable by imaging or Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) analysis)(\*\*)
  • Age from birth to ≤25 years old at the time of trial entry
  • Performance status ≥50 using Karnofsky or Lansky performance scores
  • Life expectancy of ≥8 weeks
  • Adequate bone marrow function documented by:
    • Platelet count ≥50x 10\^9/L (no platelet transfusion therapy within seven days prior to treatment) unless bone marrow involvement(\*\*\*)
    • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥0.75 x 10\^9/L (no granulocyte colony stimulating factor within 2 days prior to treatment) unless bone marrow involvement(\*\*\*)
  • Adequate hepatic function documented by:
    • Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and/or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
    • Total bilirubin ≤1.5 X ULN \*\*\*Patients with known Gilbert syndrome will be excluded if the total bilirubin value is \>4 x ULN for the local general population
  • Documented negative pregnancy test for female patients of childbearing potential within seven days prior to trial entry
  • Patients of reproductive potential agrees to use effective contraception whilst on trial treatment and for 12 months following treatment discontinuation
  • Written informed consent given by patient and/or parents/legal representative
  • Male patients of reproductive potential must agree not to donate sperm whilst on trial treatment and for 6 months following treatment discontinuation
  • Adequate renal function, creatinine clearance \>45 ml/min by measurement or estimation (if creatinine levels are normal for the patient's age, using the Cockroft-Gault Equation is sufficient)
  • For patients with bone marrow involvement(\*\*\*) or splenic sequestration, adequate bone marrow function documented by:
    • Platelet count ≥25 x 10\^9/L (no platelet transfusion therapy within three days prior to treatment)
    • Haemoglobin level ≥7 g/dL
    • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥0.5 x 10\^9/L (no granulocyte colony stimulating factor within two days prior to treatment)
  • Patients who have received CAR T-cell therapy or other cellular therapies more than 28 days prior must demonstrate recovery from acute toxicities and have measurable disease
  • Adequate renal function, by measured glomerular filtration rate (GFR) \>60 ml/min/1.73m\^2 (estimated GFR is not sufficient)
  • For patients with bone marrow involvement(\*\*\*) or splenic sequestration, requirements for bone marrow function do not apply
    • (\*) Refractory disease
    • The following patients are considered to have refractory disease and can be included in this trial:
  • Patients with who do not achieve PR or CR with last therapy
  • Patients with partial response to last therapy (biopsy proven), with no evidence of progression
    • (\*\*) CNS only disease Patients with CNS only disease may be eligible depending on the treatment arm. Please refer to the relevant treatment arm specific eligibility criteria.
    • (\*\*\*) Bone marrow involvement Patients who have ≥ 25% blasts in the bone marrow are considered to have bone marrow involvement. For these patients, requirements for bone marrow function are dependent on treatment arm. Please refer to the relevant treatment arm specific eligibility criteria.

Age in the registry: - to 25 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (17)

Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.

SiteCityCountrySite status
St. Anna Kinderspital GmbH
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ViennaAustriaRecruiting
Queensland Children's Hospital
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BrisbaneAustraliaNot yet recruiting
Perth Children's Hospital
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PerthAustraliaRecruiting
The Children's Hospital at Westmead
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SydneyAustraliaNot yet recruiting
Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven
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LeuvenBelgiumNot yet recruiting
Hospital Sant Joan De Deu Barcelona
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Esplugues de LlobregatSpainNot yet recruiting
Hospital Universitario La Paz
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MadridSpainNot yet recruiting
Hospital Universitario Y Politecnico La Fe
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ValenciaSpainNot yet recruiting
CHU de Bordeaux, groupe hospitalier Pellegrin, Hopital des Enfants
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Bordeaux CedexFranceNot yet recruiting
Institut d'hématologie et d'oncologie pédiatrique, Hospices Civils de Lyon
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Lyon Cedex 08FranceNot yet recruiting
Institut Gustave Roussy
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VillejuifFranceNot yet recruiting
Birmingham Children's Hospital
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BirminghamUnited KingdomRecruiting
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
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BristolUnited KingdomRecruiting
Royal Manchester Children's Hospital
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ManchesterUnited KingdomRecruiting
Prinses Maxima Centrum voor Kinderoncologie B.V.
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UtrechtNetherlandsRecruiting
Starship Children's Hospital
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AucklandNew ZealandNot yet recruiting
Sahlgrenska University Hospital-Vaestra Goetalandsregionen
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GoteborgSwedenNot yet recruiting

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