Review Article

Current Clinical Applications and Future Perspectives of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Table 3

Summary of selected ongoing clinical trials of PD-1/PD-L1 ICIs in NHL.

Disease, phasePhaseInterventionClinicalTrials.gov NCT reference

Aggressive B-cell lymphomas
 DLBCL, r/rIbPembrolizumab in combination with tisagenlecleucelNCT03630159
 DLBCL and PMBCL, r/rIIPembrolizumab in combination with copanlisibNCT03484819
 DLBCL with PD-L1 genetic alterations, r/rIIPembrolizumab monotherapyNCT03990961
 Aggressive B-cell lymphoma, untreatedIINivolumab in combination with DA-EPOCH-RNCT03749018
 HGBCL with MYC, BCL2, and/or BCL6 rearrangement, untreatedIINivolumab as consolidation after DA-EPOCH-RNCT03620578
 DLBCL, untreatedIIAvelumab as induction and maintenance with R-CHOPNCT03244176
 EBV-positive NHL and EBV-positive PTLD, untreated or relapsedIINivolumab monotherapyNCT03258567
 DLBCL, r/rIbMagrolimab (Hu5F9-G4) in combination with rituximab or R-GemOxNCT02953509
Aggressive B-cell lymphomas, extranodal
 PCNSL or PTL, r/rIINivolumab monotherapyNCT02857426
 CNS lymphoma, r/rIINivolumab in combination with ibrutinibNCT03770416
 PCNSL, relapse after prior 1st line HiDMTXIIPembrolizumab monotherapyNCT02779101
 PCNSL, r/rINivolumab in combination with pomalidomideNCT03798314
Transformed indolent B-cell lymphoproliferative diseases
 RT-DLBCL or transformed FLINivolumab in combination with copanlisibNCT03884998
 RT-DLBCLIIAtezolizumab in combination with obinutuzumab+venetoclaxNCT04082897
Peripheral T-cell lymphomas
 NKTL, untreated or r/rINivolumab in combination with L-asparaginase/GDPNCT04230330
 NKTCL, untreatedIISintilimab in combination with Peg-asparaginase/GemOxNCT04127227
 MF and SS, r/rPembrolizumab combined with radiotherapyNCT03385226
 ALCL, r/rIINivolumab as treatment or consolidative immunotherapyNCT03703050
 Cutaneous TCL, r/rIIAtezolizumab monotherapyNCT03357224
 PTCL or cutaneous TCL, r/rI/IIDurvalumab±lenalidomideNCT03011814

Abbreviations: ALCL: anaplastic large cell lymphoma; CNS: central nervous system; DLBCL: diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; EBV: Epstein-Bar virus; FL: follicular lymphoma; HGBCL: high-grade B-cell lymphoma; HiDMTX: high-dose methotrexate; LPD: lymphoproliferative disorders; NHL: non-Hodgkin lymphoma; NKTL: natural killer T-cell lymphoma; PCNSL: primary central nervous system lymphoma; PD-1: programmed cell-death protein 1; PD-L1: programmed cell-death 1 ligand; PMBCL: primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma; PTCL: peripheral T-cell lymphoma; PTL: primary testicular lymphoma; RT-DLBCL: Richter’s transformation of CLL to DLBCL; TCL: T-cell lymphoma.