Sattva S Neelapu1, Frederick L Locke1, Nancy L Bartlett1, Lazaros J Lekakis1, David B Miklos1, Caron A Jacobson1, Ira Braunschweig1, Olalekan O Oluwole1, Tanya Siddiqi1, Yi Lin1, John M Timmerman1, Patrick J Stiff1, Jonathan W Friedberg1, Ian W Flinn1, Andre Goy1, Brian T Hill1, Mitchell R Smith1, Abhinav Deol1, Umar Farooq1, Peter McSweeney1, Javier Munoz1, Irit Avivi1, Januario E Castro1, Jason R Westin1, Julio C Chavez1, Armin Ghobadi1, Krishna V Komanduri1, Ronald Levy1, Eric D Jacobsen1, Thomas E Witzig1, Patrick Reagan1, Adrian Bot1, John Rossi1, Lynn Navale1, Yizhou Jiang1, Jeff Aycock1, Meg Elias1, David Chang1, Jeff Wiezorek1, William Y Go1. 1. From the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (S.S.N., J.R.W.); H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL (F.L.L., J.C.C.); Washington University and Siteman Cancer Center, St. Louis (N.L.B., A. Ghobadi); University of Miami, Miami (L.J.L., K.V.K.); Stanford University, Stanford (D.B.M., R.L.), City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte (T.S.), University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles (J.M.T.), University of California at San Diego, San Diego (J.E.C.), and Kite Pharma, Santa Monica (A.B., J.R., L.N., Y.J., J.A., M.E., D.C., J.W., W.Y.G.) - all in California; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston (C.A.J., E.D.J.); Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx (I.B.), and the University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester (J.W.F., P.R.) - both in New York; Vanderbilt University Medical Center (O.O.O.) and the Sarah Cannon Research Institute and Tennessee Oncology (I.W.F.), Nashville; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (Y.L., T.E.W.); Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL (P.J.S.); John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ (A. Goy); Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland (B.T.H., M.R.S.); Karmanos Cancer Center, Wayne State University, Detroit (A.D.); University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City (U.F.); Colorado Blood Cancer Institute, Denver (P.M.S.); Banner M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Gilbert, AZ (J.M.); and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (I.A.).
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BACKGROUND: In a phase 1 trial, axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel), an autologous anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, showed efficacy in patients with refractory large B-cell lymphoma after the failure of conventional therapy. METHODS: In this multicenter, phase 2 trial, we enrolled 111 patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma, or transformed follicular lymphoma who had refractory disease despite undergoing recommended prior therapy. Patients received a target dose of 2×106 anti-CD19 CAR T cells per kilogram of body weight after receiving a conditioning regimen of low-dose cyclophosphamide and fludarabine. The primary end point was the rate of objective response (calculated as the combined rates of complete response and partial response). Secondary end points included overall survival, safety, and biomarker assessments. RESULTS: Among the 111 patients who were enrolled, axi-cel was successfully manufactured for 110 (99%) and administered to 101 (91%). The objective response rate was 82%, and the complete response rate was 54%.With a median follow-up of 15.4 months, 42% of the patients continued to have a response, with 40% continuing to have a complete response. The overall rate of survival at 18 months was 52%. The most common adverse events of grade 3 or higher during treatment were neutropenia (in 78% of the patients), anemia (in 43%), and thrombocytopenia (in 38%). Grade 3 or higher cytokine release syndrome and neurologic events occurred in 13% and 28% of the patients, respectively. Three of the patients died during treatment. Higher CAR T-cell levels in blood were associated with response. CONCLUSIONS: In this multicenter study, patients with refractory large B-cell lymphoma who received CAR T-cell therapy with axi-cel had high levels of durable response, with a safety profile that included myelosuppression, the cytokine release syndrome, and neurologic events. (Funded by Kite Pharma and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Therapy Acceleration Program; ZUMA-1 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02348216 .).
BACKGROUND: In a phase 1 trial, axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel), an autologous anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, showed efficacy in patients with refractory large B-cell lymphoma after the failure of conventional therapy. METHODS: In this multicenter, phase 2 trial, we enrolled 111 patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma, or transformed follicular lymphoma who had refractory disease despite undergoing recommended prior therapy. Patients received a target dose of 2×106 anti-CD19CAR T cells per kilogram of body weight after receiving a conditioning regimen of low-dose cyclophosphamide and fludarabine. The primary end point was the rate of objective response (calculated as the combined rates of complete response and partial response). Secondary end points included overall survival, safety, and biomarker assessments. RESULTS: Among the 111 patients who were enrolled, axi-cel was successfully manufactured for 110 (99%) and administered to 101 (91%). The objective response rate was 82%, and the complete response rate was 54%.With a median follow-up of 15.4 months, 42% of the patients continued to have a response, with 40% continuing to have a complete response. The overall rate of survival at 18 months was 52%. The most common adverse events of grade 3 or higher during treatment were neutropenia (in 78% of the patients), anemia (in 43%), and thrombocytopenia (in 38%). Grade 3 or higher cytokine release syndrome and neurologic events occurred in 13% and 28% of the patients, respectively. Three of the patients died during treatment. Higher CAR T-cell levels in blood were associated with response. CONCLUSIONS: In this multicenter study, patients with refractory large B-cell lymphoma who received CAR T-cell therapy with axi-cel had high levels of durable response, with a safety profile that included myelosuppression, the cytokine release syndrome, and neurologic events. (Funded by Kite Pharma and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Therapy Acceleration Program; ZUMA-1 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02348216 .).
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