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Frailty impairs the feasibility of induction therapy but not of maintenance therapy in elderly myeloma patients: final results of the German Maintenance Study (GERMAIN).

Annamaria Brioli1,2, Kirsi Manz3, Markus Pfirrmann3, Mathias Hänel4, Andreas Christoph Schwarzer5, Gabriele Prange-Krex6, Christian Fabisch7, Stefan Knop8, Thomas Illmer9, Beate Krammer-Steiner10, Andreas Hochhaus7, Marie von Lilienfeld-Toal7, Lars-Olof Mügge7,11.   

Abstract

PURPOSE: The German Maintenance Study (GERMAIN) was designed to evaluate the impact of lenalidomide maintenance after induction therapy with bortezomib, melphalan and prednisolone (VMP) in transplant-ineligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM) patients.
METHODS: Due to poor accrual and high dropout rate, only 85 patients (planned 286) entered the trial and 40 (planned 200) were randomized to lenalidomide maintenance (n = 19) vs. observation (n = 21).
RESULTS: The primary endpoint, improved progression-free survival, was not met (p = 0.3572). After a median follow-up of 12.9 months, median progression-free survival in the lenalidomide arm was 14.4 months and 11.4 months with placebo. The hazard ratio 0.621 (95% confidence interval: [0.224, 1.725]) was about the same as expected (0.625). However, with only 40 patients randomized, the actual power to detect a difference was 11%. Of patients receiving at least one dose of induction, 54% were frail according to a modified International Myeloma Working Group frailty score. Discontinuations were high during induction (47%), and affected mainly frail patients (54%). Despite a higher rate of adverse events in the lenalidomide arm (p = 0.0061), only 2 patients discontinued lenalidomide due to toxicity.
CONCLUSION: A frailty assessment with appropriate dose modification for induction therapy should be mandatory for all elderly non-transplant-eligible myeloma patients.

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Keywords:  Frailty score; Maintenance; Multiple myeloma; Transplant-ineligible patients

Year:  2019        PMID: 31788741     DOI: 10.1007/s00432-019-03101-z

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Cancer Res Clin Oncol        ISSN: 0171-5216            Impact factor:   4.553


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9.  Commentary on "Is posttransplant lenalidomide the standard-of-care after an autotransplant for plasma cell myeloma" by Giovanni Barosi and Robert Peter Gale.

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Journal:  Leukemia       Date:  2019-01-11       Impact factor: 11.528

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