Obinutuzumab with bendamustine [OBIBEN1]
The treatment of follicular lymphoma refractory to rituximab where the following criteria apply:
- An application has been made by and the first cycle of systemic anti -cancer therapy will be prescribed by a consultant specialist specifically trained and accredited in the use of systemic anti-cancer therapy.
- The patient has a confirmed histological diagnosis of follicular lymphoma.
- The patient has been previously treated for follicular lymphoma with rituximab-containing chemotherapy (i.e. with induction rituximab-containing chemotherapy followed if appropriate by maintenance rituximab therapy) and that the patient has either progressed during rituximab-containing induction chemotherapy or progressed during or within 6 months of completing maintenance rituximabmonotherapy. Please indicate below whether the patient progressed during rituximab-containing induction chemotherapy or during or within 6 months of completing maintenance rituximab monotherapy:
- The patient has either failed to respond to or progressed during rituximab-containing combination induction chemotherapy or
- The patient has progressed during or within 6 months of completing maintenance single agent rituximab. If the patient progressed during or within 6 months of completing maintenance single agent rituximab, please indicate how many months since completion of previous induction rituximab-containing combination chemotherapy progression occurred: Please also indicate below whether the patient was originally treated with 1st line obinutuzumab-containing chemotherapy or not:
- The patient was previously treated with 1st line obinutuzumab-containing chemotherapy or
- The patient was not previously treated with 1st line obinituzumab-containing chemotherapy.
- The patient has not previously received treatment with bendamustine unless completed more than 2 years previously.
- A maximum of 6 cycles of the combination of obinutuzumab plus bendamustine should be used and followed in responding patients or in those with stable disease with maintenance single agent obinutuzumab once every 2 months for a maximum of 2 years or until disease progression (whichever occurs first).
- The patient has an ECOG performance status (PS) of 0 - 2.
- No planned treatment breaks of more than 6 weeks beyond the expected cycle length are allowed (to allow any toxicity of current therapy to settle or intercurrent comorbidities to improve).
- The licensed doses and frequencies of obinutuzumab and bendamustine will be used.
NHS funded From: 11 August 2020
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