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1638 Survival in Mantle Cell Lymphoma Patients with a Second Primary Malignancy

Program: Oral and Poster Abstracts
Session: 623. Mantle Cell, Follicular, Waldenstrom’s, and Other Indolent B Cell Lymphomas: Clinical and Epidemiological: Poster I
Hematology Disease Topics & Pathways:
Research, Epidemiology, Clinical Practice (Health Services and Quality), Clinical Research, Adverse Events
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 5:30 PM-7:30 PM

Kossi D Abalo, PhD1*, Trine Trab2*, Joachim Baech, MD3,4*, Sara Ekberg, PhD5*, Simon Pahnke, MD6*, Alexandra Albertsson-Lindblad, MD, PhD7*, Karin Ekstroem Smedby, MD8, Mats Jerkeman, MD, PhD9, Peter Brown, MD, PhD10,11*, Thomas Stauffer Larsen, MD, PhD12,13*, Kirsten Gronbaek, MD, PhD, PR14, Tarec Christoffer El-Galaly, MD, DMSc, Prof15 and Ingrid Glimelius, MD, Professor6

1Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Cancer Precision Medicine Unit, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
2Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
3Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
4Department of Hematology, Clinical Cancer Research Unit, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
5Department of Medicine Solna, Clinical Epidemiology Division, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
6Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
7Division of Oncology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
8Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
9Division of Oncology, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Skåne University Hospital, Skane University Hospital, Lund, Skaane Laen, Sweden
10Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
11Department of Hematology, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
12Department of Hematology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, Odense, Denmark
13Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
14Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark
15Department of Hematology, Aalborg Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Background

One of the most detrimental late effects after treatment of lymphoma is second primary malignancies (SPM). We recently showed an increased risk of SPMs in two large population-based studies in Sweden1 and Denmark2. The aim of the current study was to investigate the impact of SPMs on survival for patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) relative to comparators with a similar malignancy.

Methods

All patients diagnosed with MCL in Denmark in 2000-2020 and Sweden in 2000-2017 with a SPM after the MCL diagnosis were included. Patients were matched with individuals from the background population (comparators) without lymphoma who had a similar malignancy as the index patient. Matching was done in a ratio of 1:5 on birth year, sex, malignancy ICD10-code, and calendar year of malignancy. Both patients and comparators were followed from diagnosis of the SPM/malignancy until death, emigration, or 31st December 2021 (2019 in Sweden). Overall survival (OS) was calculated for patients and comparators using the Kaplan Meier estimator and stratified by SPM type. Adjusted all-cause mortality hazard ratios (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated with adjustment for age, sex, and year of SPM/malignancy. Descriptive statistics were reported using the averaged value from both countries and the all-cause mortality HRs were summarized to estimate pooled hazard ratios (pHR) combining both countries using the inverse variance weighted method with a random effect.

Results

In total, 497 patients with a SPM after MCL and 1,992 matched comparators with similar malignancies without lymphoma were followed for a median of 4.7 years (patients) and 4.8 years (comparators). The majority of patients had stage IV MCL (71.5%) and intermediate or high MCL international prognostic index (76.9%) at MCL diagnosis. MCL first line treatment was chemoimmunotherapy (80%) and only 8% received radiotherapy in both countries. Patients had a median age of 75 years at SPM diagnosis.

The most common SPMs were skin cancer (45%), gastrointestinal cancer (12%), prostate cancer (12%), and lung cancer (12%). Secondary acute myeloid leukemias (AML) or myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) were seen in 18 patients, accounting for 4% of all SPMs. A total of 127 (54%) and 155 (59%) patients died during follow-up in Denmark and Sweden, respectively. Among the 155 deaths in Sweden, 38% died from MCL, 24% died from solid cancer, 20% from other causes than malignancy, 13% from secondary leukemia/MDS and 5% from skin cancer. In patients from Sweden with skin cancer, the leading cause of death was MCL (46%) and only a few (7%) died from the secondary skin cancer. Patients had a higher risk of dying than comparators with median OS of 4.3 years in Denmark and 2.7 years in Sweden versus 6.8 and 9.1 years for comparators, respectively, and pHR for all-cause mortality of 2.0 (1.1-3.6). In both countries, elevated all-cause mortality rates were seen for patients with skin SPMs pHR 2.8 (1.8-4.5), MDS/AML SPMs pHR 2.4 (1.3-4.3), and a trend was seen towards increased mortality rate for solid SPMs pHR 1.4 (0.8-2.5). In Sweden, the median OS after solid cancers, skin cancers, and MDS/AML for patients were 4.1 years, 2.5 years, and 4.4 months compared to 10.4 years, 8.2 years, and 19.7 months for comparators. Among skin SPM patients, the median OS for melanoma (N=14) was 4.0 years and for non-melanoma (N=95) was 2.5 years. In Denmark, the median OS after solid cancers, skin cancers, and MDS/AML patients were 2.2 years, 6.1 years, and 10.1 months compared to 3.0 years, 12.6 years, and 21.6 months for comparators. Among skin SPM patients in Denmark, 99 were non-melanomas (with a median OS: 6.1 years) and 15 were melanomas.

Conclusions

Patients with MCL with a SPM have a compromised survival when compared to a background population with similar malignancies. The most common SPMs were skin cancers, which was associated with a higher likelihood of death, mostly driven by the underlying MCL.

References

  1. Abalo KD et al. Secondary malignancies among mantle cell lymphoma patients. Eur J Cancer Oxf Engl 1990. 2023
  2. Trab T et al. Second primary malignancies in patients with lymphoma in Denmark after high-dose chemotherapy and autologous haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation Lancet Haematol. 2023

Disclosures: Trab: Janssen Cilag A/S: Research Funding. Ekstroem Smedby: Abbvie: Honoraria; InCyte: Honoraria. Jerkeman: Roche: Research Funding; Janssen: Honoraria; Abbvie: Honoraria, Research Funding; AstraZeneca: Honoraria, Research Funding; Kite/Gilead: Honoraria. Brown: Roche: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Novartis: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Gilead: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Abbvie: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Swedish Orphan: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees. Larsen: Genentech: Research Funding; Gilead: Consultancy; Roche: Consultancy. Gronbaek: Otsuka Pharma: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Janssen: Research Funding.

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