Nivolumab/Ipilimumab-Primed Immunotransplant for DLBCL

Exclusion Criteria

• •10. There is no upper age restriction.
• •11. Patients whom have undergone previous autologous stem cell transplant, and have recurrent or residual disease are eligible for this trial.
• •The subject must be excluded from participating in the trial if the subject:
• •1. Is currently participating and receiving study therapy or has participated in a study of an investigational agent and received study therapy or used an investigational device within 28 days of the first dose of treatment.
• •2. Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving systemic steroid therapy or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of trial treatment.
• •3. Has a known history of active TB (Bacillus Tuberculosis)
• •4. Hypersensitivity to ipilimumab or nivolumab or any of their excipients.
• •5. Has had a prior anti-cancer monoclonal antibody (mAb) within 28 days prior to study Day 1 or who has not recovered (i.e., ≤ Grade 1 or at baseline) from adverse events due to agents administered more than 28 days earlier.
• •6. Has had prior chemotherapy, targeted small molecule therapy, or radiation therapy within 14 days prior to study Day 1 or who has not recovered (i.e., ≤ Grade 1 or at baseline) from adverse events due to a previously administered agent.
• •Note: Subjects with ≤ Grade 2 neuropathy are an exception to this criterion and may qualify for the study.
• •Note: If subject received major surgery, they must have recovered adequately from the toxicity and/or complications from the intervention prior to starting therapy.
• •7. Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing or requires active treatment. Exceptions include basal cell carcinoma of the skin or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin that has undergone potentially curative therapy or in situ cervical cancer.
• •8. Has known active central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or lymphomatous meningitis. Subjects with previously treated brain metastases may participate provided they are stable (without evidence of progression by imaging for at least 28 days prior to the first dose of trial treatment and any neurologic symptoms have returned to baseline), have no evidence of new or enlarging brain metastases, and are not using steroids for at least 7 days prior to trial treatment. This exception does not include lymphomatous meningitis, which is excluded regardless of clinical stability.
• •9. Has active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 1 year (i.e. with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs). Replacement therapy (e.g. thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is not considered a systemic treatment. Subjects on stable dose of corticosteroids less than or equivalent to 10mg of prednisone daily for more than 3 months may be enrolled, and continue their stable dose through treatment.
• •10. Has known history of, or any evidence of active, non-infectious pneumonitis.
• •11. Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy.
• •12. Has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the trial, interfere with the subject's participation for the full duration of the trial, or is not in the best interest of the subject to participate, in the opinion of the treating Investigator.
• •13. Has known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with cooperation with the requirements of the trial.
• •14. Is pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children within the projected duration of the trial, starting with the pre-screening or screening visit through 120 days after the last dose of trial treatment (roughly two and a half years after enrollment).
• •15. HIV positive with detectable viral load, or anyone not on stable anti-viral (HAART) regimen.
• •16. Has known active Hepatitis B (e.g., HBsAg reactive) or Hepatitis C (e.g., HCV RNA \[qualitative\] is detected).
• •17. History of allogeneic stem-cell (or other organ) transplantation.
• •18. Has received a live vaccine within 30 days of planned start of study therapy. Note: Seasonal influenza vaccines for injection are generally inactivated flu vaccines and are allowed; however intranasal influenza vaccines (e.g., Flu-Mist®) are live attenuated vaccines, and are not allowed.