First-line treatment with bendamustine and rituximab for old and frail patients with aggressive lymphoma : results of the B-R-ENDA trial / Friederike Braulke, Florian Zettl, Marita Ziepert, Andreas Viardot, Christoph Kahl, Gabriele Prange-Krex, Agnieszka Korfel, Martin Dreyling, Alexander Bott, Ulrich Wedding, Dietmar Reichert, Maike de Wit, Frank Hartmann, Viola Poeschel, Norbert Schmitz, Mathias Witzens-Harig, Wolfram Klapper, Andreas Rosenwald, Gerald Wulf, Bettina Altmann, Lorenz Trümper

The incidence of aggressive B-cell lymphomas increases with age, but for elderly or frail patients not eligible for doxorubicin-containing treatment standard therapy remains to be defined. In this prospective, multicenter, phase-2 B-R-ENDA trial, we investigated the feasibility, toxicity, and efficacy of 8 cycles rituximab combined with 6 cycles bendamustine (BR) in elderly or frail aggressive B-cell lymphoma patients: 39 patients aged >80 years and 29 patients aged 61-80 years with elevated Cumulative Illness Rating Scalescore >6 were included. Progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) at 2 years were 45% (95% confidence interval [CI], 28%-61%) and 46% (28%-63%) for the patients age >80, as well 32% (13%-51%) and 37% (17%-57%) for frail patients age 64-80, respectively. In a preplanned retrospective analysis, we found no significant differences in PFS and OS comparing the outcome of the 39 patients age >80 years with 40 patients aged 76-80 years treated with 6xR-CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisolone) and 2 x rituximab in the RICOVER-60 trial (DSHNHL 1999-1, NCT00052936, EU-20243), yet we detected lower rates of infections and treatment-related deaths in the BR-treated patients. We demonstrate that older and frail patients with aggressive B-cell lymphoma who are not able to receive standard CHOP-based therapy can benefit from anthracycline-free therapy as a feasible and effective therapeutic option..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

Dec 1, 2022

2022

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Dec 1, 2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:6

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HemaSphere - 6(2022), 12 vom: Dez., Artikel-ID e808, Seite 1-10

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Englisch

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Braulke, Friederike, 1979- [VerfasserIn]
Zettl, Florian [VerfasserIn]
Ziepert, Marita [VerfasserIn]
Viardot, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Kahl, Christoph [VerfasserIn]
Prange-Krex, Gabriele [VerfasserIn]
Korfel, Agnieszka [VerfasserIn]
Dreyling, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Bott, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Wedding, Ulrich [VerfasserIn]
Reichert, Dietmar [VerfasserIn]
de Wit, Maike [VerfasserIn]
Hartmann, Frank [VerfasserIn]
Poeschel, Viola [VerfasserIn]
Schmitz, Norbert [VerfasserIn]
Witzens-Harig, Mathias [VerfasserIn]
Klapper, Wolfram [VerfasserIn]
Rosenwald, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Wulf, Gerald [VerfasserIn]
Altmann, Bettina [VerfasserIn]
Trümper, Lorenz [VerfasserIn]

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10.1097/HS9.0000000000000808

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