New combo therapy aims to tackle rare brain cancer

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1.18-60 years 2.ECOG performance status 0-2 3.No prior treatment with CAR-T cell therapy or autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) 4.Expected survival ≥ 3 months 5.No history of malignancy (except for in situ carcinoma or other indolent malignancies), or inactive malignancy with treatment completed \>1 year ago 6.Histopathologically confirmed PCNSL (lymphoma confined to the brain without systemic involvement, with histopathological type being diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, or systemic lymphoma with central nervous system involvement and histopathological type being diffuse large B-cell lymphoma) 7.Refractory disease is defined as failure to achieve complete remission after first-line therapy (excluding intolerance to first-line therapy), including: Progressive disease (PD) as best response to first-line therapy, or Stable disease (SD) as best response after at least 4 cycles of first-line therapy (e.g., 4 cycles of R-CHOP), or Residual disease after at least 6 cycles of first-line therapy, or relapse within 12 months after completing first-line therapy 8.Relapsed disease is defined as recurrence after achieving complete remission following first-line therapy, occurring within 12 months after treatment completion 9.Positive CD19 expression by immunohistochemistry 10.No contraindications for CAR-T cell therapy or ASCT 11.No concurrent use of other anti-tumor therapies during this treatment; bisphosphonates for bone metastases and symptomatic supportive treatments are allowed 12.Able to understand the study and provide signed Informed Consent Form Exclusion Criteria: 1. Pregnant or lactating women 2. Any uncontrolled medical condition (including active infection, uncontrolled diabetes, severe cardiac, hepatic or renal insufficiency, interstitial pneumonia, etc.) 3. Use of systemic corticosteroids within 7 days before CD19 CAR-T cell infusion (except ≤ 5 mg/day dexamethasone or equivalent doses of other corticosteroids) 4. Prior exposure to ≥ 2 of the following agents with documented resistance: orelabrutinib, fotemustine, carmustine, thiotepa, or PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors 5. History of autoimmune disease 6. Presence of cachexia or any other contraindication to chemotherapy 7. Active, uncontrolled infection 8. History of poorly controlled psychiatric disorder 9. Any condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would preclude safe participation in this trial