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299 Validation of POD24 As a Robust Early Clinical End Point of Poor Survival in Mantle Cell Lymphoma from 1280 Patients on Clinical Trials

Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Type: Oral
Session: 623. Mantle Cell, Follicular, and Other Indolent B Cell Lymphomas: Clinical and Epidemiological: Prospective and Real-World Outcomes of Novel Therapies in Indolent Lymphomas and MCL
Saturday, December 9, 2023: 5:00 PM

Clementine Sarkozy1*, Loïc Chartier2*, Vincent Ribrag3*, Remy Gressin, MD4*, Christian Geisler, MD, PhD5*, Hanneke Kluin-Nelemans6*, Catherine Thieblemont, MD7*, Franck Morschhauser, MD PhD8, Corinne Haioun, MD, PhD9, Violaine Safar, MD10*, Herve Ghesquieres, MD, PhD11*, Wolframm Klapper12*, Barbara Burroni, MD13*, Christiane Pott14*, Marie-Helene Delfau, MD PhD15*, Elizabeth A. Macintyre, MD, PhD16, Mary Callanan17*, Michael Unterhalt18*, Eva Hoster19*, Martin Dreyling, MD20, Steven Le Gouill, MD, PhD21, Olivier Hermine22* and Morgane Cheminant23*

1Hematology departement, institut Curie, Paris, France
2LYSARC, Pierre Bénite, France
3Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, FRA
4HOPITAL ALBERT MICHALLON, Department of Hematology, University Hospital Grenoble, Grenoble, France
5Department of Hematology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
6University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, NLD
7Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Hemato-oncologie, Université de Paris, Paris, France
8CHRU de Lille, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille, Cedex, FRA
9Lymphoid Malignancies Department, Henri Mondor University Hospital, AP-HP, Créteil, France
10Hematology Department, Hôpital Lyon Sud - HCL, Lyon, France
11Hematology, Lyon, FRA
12University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, DEU
13Pathology, Cochin, Paris, FRA
14Second Medical Department, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
15Hemato-biology, Henri Mondor University Hospital, Créteil, France
16Laboratory of Onco-Hematology, Necker Enfants-Malades Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, Paris, FRA
17INSERM U823, Grenoble, FRA
18University of Munich, Munich, DEU
19Institute of Medical Data Processing, Biometrics and Epidemiology (IBE), LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
20Department of Medicine, Medical Clinic III, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital, Munich, Germany
21Hematology Department, Institut Curie, Paris, France
22Hematology Department, Necker University Hospital, Paris, France
23Department of Hematology, Necker Hospital, APHP, Paris, France

Background

The prognosis of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) has largely improved in the past decade; however, the disease is characterized by a heterogeneous clinical course. Several retrospective studies identified early progression of disease (i.e. within two years, POD24) as a potential overall survival (OS) surrogate, but this has not been validated in cohorts of patients prospectively included in clinical trials in rituximab maintenance era.

Methods

We performed a pooled analysis of French patients with MCL included in six randomized clinical trials (EU-MCL younger NCT00209222, LyMA NCT00921414, LyMA101 NCT02896582, EU-MCL elderly NCT00209209, MCL-R2 NCT01865110 and RiBVD NCT01457144). Survival analysis using Landmark approach evaluated the association of POD24 status with post-event OS for all patients: starting from POD24 event or two years for patients without POD24 event. Logistic regression models were used to evaluate the association between POD24 status and (1) clinico-biological factors at diagnosis; (2) autologous stem cell transplantation at end-of-induction (ASCT) and anti-CD20 maintenance (RM) in responding patients after induction only.

Results

Among 1386 MCL patients, 106 censored for clinical follow-up before 24 months were excluded from the analysis, leading to 1280 patients evaluable for POD24 status: 299 with a POD24 event and 981 without. The 299 (23%) patients with a POD24 event had a post-event median OS of 9.3 months (95% CI 8.4-11.8) versus not reached in patients without POD24 event (95% CI 97.8-NR). Within the 981 non-POD24 patients, 314 presented a late relapse with a post-relapse median OS of 49.4 months (95% CI 30.4-56.8), significantly longer than OS of POD24 patients (HR=0.39; 95%CI 0.31-0.48; p<0.001). Compared to patients without a POD24 event, POD24 patients were older, had more frequently a performance status >1, elevated LDH and higher leucocytes leading to higher MIPI scores (high-risk MIPI 61% vs. 29%; p<0.001), more frequent blastoid variant (24% vs. 9%; p<0.001) and Ki67 > 30% (45% vs. 23%, p<0.001). Regarding treatment, POD24 patients had less frequently received high-dose cytarabine (21% vs. 39%, p<0.001) as well as ASCT (26% vs. 47%, p<0.001). In a final model, including baseline factors and treatment strategies, induction was not associated with risk of POD24, and only baseline variables (age, performance status, LDH, leucocytes and Ki67>30%) remained significantly associated with POD24 status. Within responding patients only (CR/CRu/PR at end-of-induction, n=1000), 150 had a POD24 event, and ASCT or RM were not significantly associated with POD24 status whereas age, LDH and Ki67>30% remained significant.

Conclusion

Using this large dataset of patients included in clinical trials, we confirm that POD24 can be used as a surrogate for OS in MCL. ASCT as well as RM have not a clear benefit to prevent early relapse within two years after the diagnosis in responding patients at end-of-induction.

Disclosures: Sarkozy: Incyte Bioscience: Consultancy, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses; BMS: Consultancy; Janssen: Consultancy; GSK: Consultancy; AbbVie: Honoraria; Gilead: Other: Congress fees; Roche: Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses, Research Funding; Prelude Therapeutics: Consultancy; Beigene: Consultancy; Lilly: Honoraria; Gilead: Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses; Takeda: Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses. Thieblemont: Bayer: Honoraria; Kite: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel Expenses; Cellectis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel Expenses; Gilead Sciences: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel Expenses; AbbVie: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel Expenses; Takeda: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Roche: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel Expenses, Research Funding; Incyte: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Janssen: Honoraria, Other: Travel Expenses; Amgen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel Expenses; Hospira: Research Funding; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel Expenses; BMS/Celgene: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel Expenses, Research Funding; Paris University, Assistance Publique, hopitaux de Paris (APHP): Current Employment; Kyte, Gilead, Novartis, BMS, Abbvie, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Amgen: Honoraria. Morschhauser: F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, AbbVie, BMS, Genmab, Gilead, Novartis: Consultancy; F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Gilead, AbbVie: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees. Safar: janssen: Honoraria. Ghesquieres: Gilead, Roche: Consultancy; Gilead, Roche, Bristol Myers Squibb, AbbVie, Novartis: Honoraria. Dreyling: Astra Zeneca, Beigene, Gilead/Kite, Janssen, Lilly, Novartis, Roche: Honoraria; Abbvie, Bayer, BMS/Celgene, Gilead/Kite, Janssen, Roche: Research Funding; Abbvie, Astra Zeneca, Beigene, BMS/Celgene, Gilead/Kite, Janssen, Lilly/Loxo, Novartis, Roche: Other: Scientific advisory boards. Cheminant: Innate Pharma: Research Funding; AstraZeneca: Other: Travel accomodations and Meeting inscription; Amgen: Honoraria; Abbvie: Research Funding.

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