Session: 907. Outcomes Research: Plasma Cell Disorders: Poster I
Hematology Disease Topics & Pathways:
Research, Adult, Clinical Research, Health outcomes research, Real-world evidence, Registries, Study Population, Human
All4Cure is a continuously updated online network of patients with cancer, clinicians and researchers, layered on top of a comprehensive real-world database of treatments and outcomes collected in near real time. Our study aimed to use All4Cure data to further examine the outcomes of patients who do not achieve PR or better with frontline therapy, and whether complete replacement versus substitution of therapy results in better outcomes.
Methods. Eligible patients included those registered for All4Cure who had received triplet therapy in the frontline setting (± ASCT), achieved a best response to frontline therapy of PR or worse (including minimal response (MR), stable disease (SD), progressive disease (PD) and not applicable (NA)) as assessed by the All4Cure registry, and initiated second-line treatment. Patients were classified as Replacement (R) if all frontline agents (excluding dexamethasone) had been replaced in the second-line, and Substitution (S) if one or more (but not all) non-dexamethasone agents were replaced in the second-line. Patients with second-line therapies that did not qualify as R or S were excluded. Outcomes in the second-line setting included clinical response, time to discontinuation of second-line therapy (TTD), and time to next treatment (i.e., start of third-line therapy; TTNT). Outcomes were assessed with chi-square/Fisher exact test and Kaplan-Meier analysis, respectively.
Results. Of 135 eligible patients, 43 were categorized as R and 92 were categorized as S. Of the R group, 22 (51.2%) achieved VGPR or better in second-line, and 21 (48.8%) achieved PR or worse with NA included. Of the S group, 38 (41.3%) achieved VGPR or better in second-line, and 54 (58.7%) achieved PR or worse with NA included (test of independence χ2 statistic = 1.153, p = 0.283). Median TTD was 338 days for S vs. 587 days for R (log-rank χ2 statistic = 2.52, p = 0.113). Median TNTT was 1282 days for S vs. 1822 days for R (log-rank χ2 statistic = 1.15, p = 0.283).
Conclusion. While patients in the R group appeared to have better outcomes than patients in the S group, the difference between groups was not statistically significant. Interestingly, most patients are contained in the S group, which suggests that many clinicians believe patients may continue to benefit from elements of their existing therapy.
Although results were nonsignificant, we did observe a trend suggesting that R may be a superior strategy to S as evidenced by TTD and TTNT results. Further studies will analyze the pre-treatment differences between the R and S groups to facilitate elucidation of covariates that may influence results and later lines of treatment.
Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
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