Pomalidomide Plus Rituximab Maintenance in Young High-Risk Newly Diagnosed DLBCL After First-Line Response

This is a prospective, single-arm, single-center clinical study evaluating pomalidomide combined with rituximab as maintenance treatment in young high-risk patients with newly diagnosed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) who have achieved at least a partial response after first-line therapy.

Eligible participants will receive rituximab 375 mg/m² by intravenous infusion on Day 1 every 8 weeks and pomalidomide 4 mg orally once daily on Days 1 to 21 of each 28-day cycle. Maintenance treatment is planned for 24 months unless disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, withdrawal of consent, or other protocol-defined discontinuation criteria occur.

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of this maintenance treatment approach. The primary outcome measure is the 1-year progression-free survival rate. Secondary outcome measures include conversion from partial response to complete response, duration of response, progression-free survival, overall survival, 1-year and 2-year overall survival rates, 2-year progression-free survival rate, minimal residual disease, complete molecular response, immune cell subsets, immune function markers, and adverse events.