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4625 Treatment Outcomes of Patients Treated with Venetoclax-Obinutuzumab Therapy Vs Btki Therapies in 1L CLL: An International Real-World Study

Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Session: 642. Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Clinical and Epidemiological: Poster III
Hematology Disease Topics & Pathways:
Lymphoid Leukemias, CLL, Diseases, Lymphoid Malignancies
Monday, December 9, 2024, 6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Nicole Lamanna, MD1*, Jennifer R. Brown, MD, PhD2, Chaitra S. Ujjani, MD3, Toby A. Eyre4*, Beenish Manzoor5*, Nilanjan Ghosh6*, Lindsey Roeker, MD7, Matthew S. Davids, MD, MMSc2, Catherine C Coombs, MD8*, Alan P Skarbnik, MD9, Brian T. Hill, MD, PhD10, Hande H. Tuncer, MD2, Lori A. Leslie, MD11*, Joanna M. Rhodes, MD, MSCE12*, Isabelle Fleury, MD, MSc13, Paul M Barr, MD14, Nnadozie Emechebe5*, Nicolas Martinez-Calle15*, Christopher E. Jensen16*, Yun Choi17*, Dureshahwar Jawaid5*, Laurie K Pearson, MD18, Meghan C. Thompson, MD7, Steven E Marx5*, Wendy Sinai, PharmD19*, Frederick Lansigan, MD20*, Bita Fakhri, MD, MPH21, Deborah M. Stephens, DO22, Stephen J. Schuster, MD23, Michael Coyle24*, Irina Pivneva, PhD25*, Talissa Watson25*, Annie Guerin, MSc25* and Mazyar Shadman3*

1Columbia University, New York, NY
2Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
3Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
4Churchill Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
5AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL
6Levine Cancer Institute, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC
7CLL Program, Leukemia Service, Division of Hematologic Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
8University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
9Lymphoma and CLL Program, Novant Health Cancer Institute, Charlotte, NC
10Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
11John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack, NJ
12Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
13Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
14University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
15Nottingham University Hospitals, NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom
16University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
17Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
18University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA
19Senior Scientific Director, AbbVie, AbbVie, North Chicago, IL
20Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon
21Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
22Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
23University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
24Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, MA
25Analysis Group, Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada

Introduction: Venetoclax + obinutuzumab (VO) and Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor (BTKi) therapies used in the first line (1L) setting are highly effective for patients (pts) with chronic/small lymphocytic leukemia (CLL/SLL) but there are no reported comparative studies. This study compared real-world clinical outcomes of pts treated with VO vs BTKi therapy in 1L.

Methods: Data from the CLL Collaborative Study of Real-World Evidence (CORE), an international, retrospective, multi-center chart review study (25 centers) were used. Adult pts who initiated approved 1L treatments of VO (VO cohort) or covalent BTKi (cBTKi cohort) therapy in 1L between 2019-2024 were included. Cohorts were balanced using entropy balancing on sex, age at 1L, year of 1L start, ECOG performance status, Rai stage, del(17p)/TP53 mutation, and comorbidities. Among pts with known mutation status, proportion of pts with unmutated IGHV was similar across cohorts; hence it was not included (VO: 54.8%; cBTKi: 57.6%). Weighted outcomes included overall response rate (ORR: proportion of pts with physician-reported clinical complete/partial response [CR/PR] out of pts with available response data), progression-free-survival (PFS: time from initiation of therapy to disease progression/death [event] or last follow-up [censor]), and time to next treatment or death (TTNT-D: time from initiation of therapy to the change of therapy (including cBTKi to cBTKi)/death [event] or last follow-up [censor]). Time-to-event data were assessed using Kaplan-Meier methods and Cox proportional hazards model at 12 and 18 months (mos). Given >20% of pts were still at risk 18-mos after 1L initiation, results for 18-mos rates were reported.

Results: Of 2,309 total pts, 110 initiated VO and 242 a cBTKi (ibrutinib: 111 [45.9%], acalabrutinib: 102 [42.1%], zanubrutinib: 15 [6.2%], cBTKi+anti-CD20: 14 [5.8%]) in 1L. Before weighting, the VO cohort was younger at 1L initiation (median years VO: 64.5; cBTKi: 67.9) and median time to 1L start post-diagnosis was longer (39.1 vs 25.1 mos). The VO cohort had higher proportion of pts with ECOG 0-2 (among those with known ECOG: 99.0% vs 98.9%), lower proportion with del(17p)/TP53 mutation (6.7% vs 17.1%), and lower median number of comorbidities (1 vs 2). Common comorbidities for both cohorts included cardiovascular (43.6% vs 52.1%) and endocrine/metabolic conditions (20.9% vs 36.8%). Pt and treatment characteristics were well-matched between cohorts after weighting.

After weighting, with a median follow-up of 10.2 mos (IQR: 5.6, 17.9) for the VO cohort and 10.7 mos (IQR: 4.9, 25.5) for the cBTKi cohort, median duration of treatment was 9.5 [IQR: 5.4, 17.3] vs 12.1 [IQR: 4.9, 18.3] mos, respectively; majority of pts were still on therapy at the time of analyses (63.6% vs 74.7%) but fewer pts in the VO cohort initiated a subsequent line of therapy (2.7% vs 18.8%). Among the 58 pts in the cBTKi cohort who sequenced to another therapy, largely due to intolerance (66.7%), 41.9% switched to another cBTKi (36.2% to acalabrutinib) and 58.1% to a different regimen (i.e., venetoclax-based: 45.7%; other: 12.4%). Only 3 pts in the VO cohort started another therapy (2 due to intolerance).

The ORR was descriptively higher for the VO cohort (ORR: 89.2% [CR: 58.1%; PR: 31.1%], available response data for 67.3%) relative to the cBTKi cohort (ORR: 80.7% [CR: 8.8%; PR: 71.9%], available response data for 63.0%).

The median PFS was not reached, however the 18-mos rate was trending higher for the VO cohort (92.2% vs 84.3%). Based on the Cox model, there was no statistically significant difference in PFS at 18-mos for the cBTKi cohort compared to the VO cohort (hazard ratio [HR]: 2.37 (confidence interval [CI]: 0.76, 7.44; p-value: 0.14).

The median TTNT-D was not reached, however the 18-mos rate was higher for the VO cohort (89.4% vs 70.2%). Based on the Cox model, the cBTKi cohort had a statistically significant greater risk of sequencing to the next treatment/death at 18-mos compared to the VO-based cohort (HR: 3.27 (CI: 1.35, 7.94; p-value: <0.01).

Conclusions: This study is one of the first to demonstrate advantages in clinical outcomes of pts using VO vs cBTKi therapy in 1L for TTNT-D. Considering that 19% of BTKi pts switched therapy, largely due to intolerance, this highlights the need for future studies to assess VO vs 2nd-generation BTKis in the 1L setting with longer follow-up time and larger cohorts.

Disclosures: Lamanna: Abbvie, BeiGene, EliLilly/Loxo, Genmab, Janssen, Pharmacyclics, Gilead, AstraZeneca: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly/Loxo, Genentech, Genmab, Bei-Gene, MingSight, Oncternal, Octapharma: Research Funding. Brown: Acerta/AstraZeneca: Consultancy; Alloplex Biotherapeutics: Consultancy; Gilead: Research Funding; TG Therapeutics: Research Funding; AbbVie: Consultancy; Pharmacyclics: Consultancy; Pfizer: Consultancy; Numab Therapeutics: Consultancy; MEI Pharma: Consultancy, Research Funding; Loxo/Lilly: Consultancy, Research Funding; Kite: Consultancy; Janssen: Consultancy; iOnctura: Consultancy, Research Funding; Hutchmed: Consultancy; Grifols Worldwide Operations: Consultancy; Genentech/Roche: Consultancy; BeiGene: Consultancy, Research Funding; Galapagos NV: Consultancy; InnoCare Pharma Inc: Consultancy; Merck: Consultancy. Ujjani: AbbVie, Astrazeneca, Lilly, PCYC: Research Funding; Abbvie, Astrazeneca, Beigene, Genentech, Jansen, Lilly, Pharmacyclics: Honoraria. Eyre: Roche, Gilead, KITE, Takeda, Janssen, Abbvie, AstraZeneca, Loxo Oncology, Beigene, Incyte, Autolus, Galapagos, Medscape, PeerView, Clinical Care Options, The Limbic: Honoraria; Roche, Gilead, KITE, Janssen, Abbvie, AstraZeneca, Loxo Oncology, Beigene: Speakers Bureau; AbbVie: Honoraria, Other: Travel to scientific conferences; AstraZeneca: Honoraria, Research Funding; KITE: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Incyte: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Beigene, AstraZeneca: Research Funding; Loxo Oncology: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Trial steering committee; Janssen: Honoraria; Roche, Gilead, KITE, Janssen, Abbvie, AstraZeneca, Loxo Oncology, Beigene, Incyte, Autolus, Galapagos: Consultancy; Beigene: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Gilead: Honoraria, Other: Travel to scientific conferences, Research Funding; Roche: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, accommodations, expenses; Secura Bio: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees. Manzoor: AbbVie: Current Employment, Current holder of stock options in a privately-held company. Ghosh: TG Therapeutics, Genentech/Roche, Bristol Myers Squibb, Gilead, Morphosys, AbbVie: Research Funding; Seagen, TG Therapeutics, AstraZeneca, Pharmacyclics, Janssen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Beigene, Incyte, Karyopharm, Roche/Genentech, Novartis, Loxo Oncology, Genmab, Adaptive Biotech, ADC Therapeutics and Syncopation: Consultancy; Roche/Genentech, AbbVie, BMS: Research Funding; AstraZeneca, Pharmacyclics, Janssen, BMS, Kite Pharma, BeiGene, Incyte, Lava Therapeutics, Roche/Genentech, Novartis, Loxo Oncology, AbbVie, Genmab, Prepromene, and ADC Therapeutics, Ascentage and Ipsen.: Honoraria; AstraZeneca, Pharmacyclics, Janssen, BMS, Gilead Sciences, Kite Pharma, BeiGene, Incyte, Lava Therapeutics, Roche/Genentech, Novartis, Loxo Oncology, AbbVie, Genmab, Adaptive Biotech, Prepromene, Ascentage and Ipsen: Consultancy. Roeker: Ascentage: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; AstraZeneca: Consultancy, Research Funding; BeiGene: Consultancy; Dava Oncology: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Dren Bio: Research Funding; Genentech: Research Funding; Janssen: Consultancy; Loxo Oncology: Consultancy, Other: Travel support, Research Funding; Medscape: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; PeerView: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Pfizer: Consultancy, Research Funding; Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company: Consultancy; Qilu Puget Sound Biotherapeutics: Research Funding; Curio: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; TG Therapeutics: Consultancy; Aptose Biosciences: Research Funding; Adaptive Biotechnologies: Research Funding; AbbVie: Consultancy, Research Funding; Abbott Laboratories: Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Davids: Ascentage Pharma: Consultancy, Research Funding; Novartis: Research Funding; AbbVie: Consultancy, Research Funding; Adaptive Biosciences: Consultancy; Genmab: Consultancy; MEI Pharma: Research Funding; BeiGene: Consultancy; Janssen: Consultancy; TG Therapeutics: Consultancy, Research Funding; Surface Technology: Research Funding; Eli Lilly: Consultancy; BMS: Consultancy; Merck: Consultancy; AstraZeneca: Consultancy, Research Funding; Genentech: Consultancy, Research Funding. Coombs: AbbVie, Allogene, AstraZeneca, Beigene, Genentech, Janssen, LOXO/Lilly, MEI Pharma, Mingsight, Octapharma, TG Therapeutics, have served on speaker’s bureaus for AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Beigene, Genentech, Lilly: Consultancy, Honoraria; Bluebird Bio, Geron, Pfizer: Current equity holder in publicly-traded company; AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Beigene, Genentech, Lilly: Speakers Bureau; AbbVie, AstraZeneca, CarnaBio, LOXO/Lilly: Research Funding. Skarbnik: Beigene: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Lilly: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Kite: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Genentech: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; AstraZeneca: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; BMS: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Jazz Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Epizyme: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Alexion: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Abbvie: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; ADC Therapeutics: Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Genmab: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; SeaGen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Pharmacyclics: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Verastem: Honoraria, Research Funding; Acerta Pharma: Research Funding; Novartis: Honoraria; Gilead Sciences: Honoraria. Hill: AstraZeneca: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Abbvie: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; BMS: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Pharmacyclics: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Beigene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Genentech: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding. Tuncer: AbbVie: Consultancy; Eli Lilly/LOXO: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; AstraZeneca: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees. Leslie: Pharmacyclics: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Merck: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Janssen: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Kite, a Gilead Company: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Lily: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Beigene: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; ADC Therapeutics: Consultancy; Epizyme: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; TG Therapeutics: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Astrazeneca: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Roche/Genenetech: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Genmab: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Evolveimmune: Consultancy; AbbVie: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Seagen: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; BMS: Consultancy; Karyopharm: Consultancy. Rhodes: ADC Therapeutics: Consultancy; AbbVie: Consultancy, Research Funding; VelosBio: Research Funding; Johnson and Johnson: Consultancy; Oncternal Therapeutics: Research Funding; Loxo Oncology: Research Funding; Janssen: Research Funding; Epizyme: Consultancy; Beigene: Consultancy; MorphoSys: Consultancy; Pharmacyclics: Consultancy, Research Funding; TG Therapeutics: Consultancy; Verastem: Consultancy; Acerta: Research Funding; Seagen: Consultancy; Genentech: Consultancy. Fleury: Novartis: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Abbvie: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; BMS: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Gilead: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Roche: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Incyte: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Astra Zeneca: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Beigene: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Seattle Genetics: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Merck: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees. Barr: Merck: Consultancy; Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie company: Consultancy; Janssen: Consultancy; MEI Pharma: Consultancy; MorphoSys: Consultancy; AbbVie: Consultancy; AstraZeneca: Consultancy, Research Funding; TG Therapeutics: Consultancy, Research Funding; Bristol Myers Squibb: Consultancy; Celgene: Consultancy; Genentech: Consultancy; Gilead: Consultancy; Seagen: Consultancy. Emechebe: AbbVie: Current Employment, Current holder of stock options in a privately-held company. Martinez-Calle: Takeda: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; AbbVie: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel support, Speakers Bureau; BeiGene: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Janssen: Other: Travel support, Speakers Bureau; AstraZeneca: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel support, Speakers Bureau. Jensen: Abbvie: Consultancy, Research Funding. Jawaid: AbbVie: Current Employment, Current holder of stock options in a privately-held company. Thompson: AstraZeneca: Consultancy, Research Funding; Mashup Media LLC: Honoraria, Other: Reimbursed Travel; Peerview Institute for Medical Education: Honoraria; Dava Oncology: Honoraria, Other: Reimbursed travel; AbbVie: Consultancy, Research Funding; Nurix Therapeutics: Other: Reimbursed travel, Research Funding; Genentech: Research Funding; Clinical Care Options: Honoraria; BeiGene: Consultancy, Research Funding; Loxo Oncology at Lilly: Consultancy; Pharmacyclics/Janssen Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy; Genmab: Other: Reimbursed travel, Research Funding; eScientiq: Honoraria; Adaptive Biotechnologies: Research Funding. Marx: AbbVie: Current Employment, Current holder of stock options in a privately-held company. Sinai: AbbVie: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Fakhri: Loxo/Lilly: Research Funding; AbbVie/Genmab, Loxo-Lilly, BMS, Angiocrine: Research Funding; AbbVie, ADC therapeutics, AstraZeneca, BeiGene, BMS, Eli Lilly, Genentech, Genmab, Pharmacyclics: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees. Stephens: AstraZeneca, Beigene, Novartis: Research Funding; Abbvie, AstraZeneca, Beigene, BMS, Celegene, Eli Lilly, Genentech, Janssen, Pharmacyclics: Consultancy. Schuster: Caribou Biosciences: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; AbbVie: Consultancy; BeiGene: Consultancy, Honoraria; viTToria biotherapeutics: Consultancy; Nordic Nanovector: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; AstraZeneca: Consultancy, Honoraria; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Genmab: Consultancy; Kite Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy; Merck: Research Funding; Pharmacyclics: Consultancy, Research Funding; Gilead: Research Funding; Acerta: Consultancy; Legend Biotech: Consultancy, Honoraria; Celgene/Juno Therapeutics: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; BioNTech: Consultancy; Genentech/Roche: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding. Pivneva: Analysis Group, Inc.: Current Employment, Other: Analysis Group, Inc., has received consultancy fees from AbbVie. Watson: Analysis Group, Inc.: Current Employment, Other: Analysis Group, Inc., has received consultancy fees from AbbVie. Guerin: Analysis Group: Other: Annie Guerin is an employee of Analysis Group, Inc. (AG), an economic consulting firm. AG receives consulting fees from pharmaceutical companies and other ineligible companies, including Novartis. Shadman: AbbVie, Genentech, AstraZeneca, Pharmacyclics, BeiGene, BMS, MorphoSys/Incyte, Kite, Eli Lilly, Genmab, Mustang Bio, Regeneron, ADC therapeutics, Fate Therapeutics, Janssen and MEI Pharma: Consultancy; Mustang Bio, BMS, Pharmacyclics, Genentech, AbbVie, TG Therapeutics, BeiGene, AstraZeneca, Genmab, MorphoSys/Incyte, Vincerx: Research Funding.

*signifies non-member of ASH