Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Therapy Guided by Measurable Residual Disease

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BACKGROUND: The combination of ibrutinib and venetoclax has been shown to improve outcomes in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) as compared with chemoimmunotherapy. Whether ibrutinib-venetoclax and personalization of treatment duration according to measurable residual disease (MRD) is more effective than fludarabine-cyclophosphamide-rituximab (FCR) is unclear.

METHODS: In this phase 3, multicenter, randomized, controlled, open-label platform trial involving patients with untreated CLL, we compared ibrutinib-venetoclax and ibrutinib monotherapy with FCR. In the ibrutinib-venetoclax group, after 2 months of ibrutinib, venetoclax was added for up to 6 years of therapy. The duration of ibrutinib-venetoclax therapy was defined by MRD assessed in peripheral blood and bone marrow and was double the time taken to achieve undetectable MRD. The primary end point was progression-free survival in the ibrutinib-venetoclax group as compared with the FCR group, results that are reported here. Key secondary end points were overall survival, response, MRD, and safety.

RESULTS: A total of 523 patients were randomly assigned to the ibrutinib-venetoclax group or the FCR group. At a median of 43.7 months, disease progression or death had occurred in 12 patients in the ibrutinib-venetoclax group and 75 patients in the FCR group (hazard ratio, 0.13; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.07 to 0.24; P<0.001). Death occurred in 9 patients in the ibrutinib-venetoclax group and 25 patients in the FCR group (hazard ratio, 0.31; 95% CI, 0.15 to 0.67). At 3 years, 58.0% of the patients in the ibrutinib-venetoclax group had stopped therapy owing to undetectable MRD. After 5 years of ibrutinib-venetoclax therapy, 65.9% of the patients had undetectable MRD in the bone marrow and 92.7% had undetectable MRD in the peripheral blood. The risk of infection was similar in the ibrutinib-venetoclax group and the FCR group. The percentage of patients with cardiac serious adverse events was higher in the ibrutinib-venetoclax group than in the FCR group (10.7% vs. 0.4%).

CONCLUSIONS: MRD-directed ibrutinib-venetoclax improved progression-free survival as compared with FCR, and results for overall survival also favored ibrutinib-venetoclax. (Funded by Cancer Research UK and others; FLAIR ISRCTN Registry number, ISRCTN01844152; EudraCT number, 2013-001944-76.).

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:390

Enthalten in:

The New England journal of medicine - 390(2024), 4 vom: 25. Jan., Seite 326-337

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Munir, Talha [VerfasserIn]
Cairns, David A [VerfasserIn]
Bloor, Adrian [VerfasserIn]
Allsup, David [VerfasserIn]
Cwynarski, Kate [VerfasserIn]
Pettitt, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Paneesha, Shankara [VerfasserIn]
Fox, Christopher P [VerfasserIn]
Eyre, Toby A [VerfasserIn]
Forconi, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Elmusharaf, Nagah [VerfasserIn]
Kennedy, Ben [VerfasserIn]
Gribben, John [VerfasserIn]
Pemberton, Nicholas [VerfasserIn]
Sheehy, Oonagh [VerfasserIn]
Preston, Gavin [VerfasserIn]
Schuh, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Walewska, Renata [VerfasserIn]
Duley, Lelia [VerfasserIn]
Howard, Dena [VerfasserIn]
Hockaday, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Jackson, Sharon [VerfasserIn]
Greatorex, Natasha [VerfasserIn]
Girvan, Sean [VerfasserIn]
Bell, Sue [VerfasserIn]
Brown, Julia M [VerfasserIn]
Webster, Nichola [VerfasserIn]
Dalal, Surita [VerfasserIn]
de Tute, Ruth [VerfasserIn]
Rawstron, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Patten, Piers E M [VerfasserIn]
Hillmen, Peter [VerfasserIn]
National Cancer Research Institute Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Subgroup [VerfasserIn]
Cwynarksi, Kate [Sonstige Person]
Pettitt, Andrew [Sonstige Person]
Bloor, Adrian [Sonstige Person]
Munir, Talha [Sonstige Person]
Allsup, David [Sonstige Person]
Eyre, Toby [Sonstige Person]
Patten, Piers [Sonstige Person]
Fox, Christopher [Sonstige Person]
Forconi, Francesco [Sonstige Person]
Kennedy, Ben [Sonstige Person]
Elmusharaf, Nagah [Sonstige Person]
Pemberton, Nicholas [Sonstige Person]
Sheehy, Oonagh [Sonstige Person]
Macheta, Marian [Sonstige Person]
Gribben, John [Sonstige Person]
Preston, Gavin [Sonstige Person]
Jasani, Parag [Sonstige Person]
Paneesha, Shankara [Sonstige Person]
Morley, Nick [Sonstige Person]
Phillips, Neil [Sonstige Person]
Knechtli, Christopher [Sonstige Person]
Mohan, Mahalakshmi [Sonstige Person]
Todd, Anthony [Sonstige Person]
Neilson, Jeff [Sonstige Person]
Mohite, Unmesh [Sonstige Person]
Naeem, Abida [Sonstige Person]
Kaczmarek, Pawel [Sonstige Person]
Chalmers, Isobel [Sonstige Person]
Dungarwalla, Moez [Sonstige Person]
Nagumantry, Sateesh [Sonstige Person]
Sidra, Gamal [Sonstige Person]
Belsham, Edward [Sonstige Person]
Furtado, Michelle [Sonstige Person]
Zhelyazkova, Antonina [Sonstige Person]
Eden, Dewi [Sonstige Person]
Narat, Santosh [Sonstige Person]
Makkuni, Sudhakaran [Sonstige Person]
Rafferty, Mark [Sonstige Person]
Chavda, Nikesh [Sonstige Person]
Hall, Claire [Sonstige Person]
Parry-Jones, Nilima [Sonstige Person]
McCaig, Alison [Sonstige Person]
Duncan, Caroline [Sonstige Person]
Willis, Fenella [Sonstige Person]
Eagleton, Helen [Sonstige Person]
Singh, Vikram [Sonstige Person]
Broom, Angus [Sonstige Person]
Watson, David [Sonstige Person]
Follows, George [Sonstige Person]
McCulloch, Rory [Sonstige Person]
Cheung, Betty [Sonstige Person]
Maddox, Jamie [Sonstige Person]
Jones, Steve [Sonstige Person]
Austen, Belinda [Sonstige Person]
Greaves, Paul [Sonstige Person]
Ruparellia, Meghna [Sonstige Person]
Watt, Simon [Sonstige Person]
Whittle, Annika [Sonstige Person]
Pratt, Guy [Sonstige Person]
Walewska, Renata [Sonstige Person]
Grey-Davies, Elisabeth [Sonstige Person]
Turner, Deborah [Sonstige Person]
Al-Sader, Hassen [Sonstige Person]
Elder, Patrick [Sonstige Person]
Rothwell, Kate [Sonstige Person]
Tueger, Salaheddin [Sonstige Person]
Nicholson, Fiona [Sonstige Person]
Hutchinson, Claire [Sonstige Person]
De Lord, Corinne [Sonstige Person]
Heartin, Earnest [Sonstige Person]
Marks, Sasha [Sonstige Person]
Kwan, Mark [Sonstige Person]
Burns, Sarah [Sonstige Person]
Mitchell, Lindsay [Sonstige Person]
Jayaprakash, Ram [Sonstige Person]
Marshall, Scott [Sonstige Person]
Jackson, Helen [Sonstige Person]
Howarth, David [Sonstige Person]
Iyengar, Sunil [Sonstige Person]
Hasan, Yasmin [Sonstige Person]
Nicolle, Sarah [Sonstige Person]
Davidson, Kerri [Sonstige Person]
Chew, Anastasia [Sonstige Person]
Todd, Sophie [Sonstige Person]
Morris, Anna [Sonstige Person]
Muddana, Jhansi [Sonstige Person]
Goddard, Kathryn [Sonstige Person]
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Ravenscroft, Sonya [Sonstige Person]
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Themen:

4F4X42SYQ6
8N3DW7272P
Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic
Clinical Trial, Phase III
Comparative Study
Cyclophosphamide
FA2DM6879K
Fludarabine
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
N54AIC43PW
P2K93U8740
Randomized Controlled Trial
Rituximab
Sulfonamides
Venetoclax
Vidarabine

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 29.01.2024

Date Revised 20.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

ISRCTN: ISRCTN01844152

EudraCT: 2013-001944-76

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1056/NEJMoa2310063

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365693197