PMID- 32702097 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210514 LR - 20211204 IS - 2473-9537 (Electronic) IS - 2473-9529 (Print) IS - 2473-9529 (Linking) VI - 4 IP - 14 DP - 2020 Jul 28 TI - High metabolic tumor volume is associated with decreased efficacy of axicabtagene ciloleucel in large B-cell lymphoma. PG - 3268-3276 LID - 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020001900 [doi] AB - High metabolic tumor volume (MTV) predicts worse outcomes in lymphoma treated with chemotherapy. However, it is unknown if this holds for patients treated with axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel), an anti-CD19 targeted chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy. The primary objective of this retrospective study was to investigate the relationship between MTV and survival (overall survival [OS] and progression-free survival [PFS]) in patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) treated with axi-cel. Secondary objectives included finding the association of MTV with response rates and toxicity. The MTV values on baseline positron emission tomography of 96 patients were calculated via manual methodology using commercial software. Based on a median MTV cutoff value of 147.5 mL in the first cohort (n = 48), patients were divided into high and low MTV groups. Median follow-up for survivors was 24.98 months (range, 10.59-51.02 months). Patients with low MTV had significantly superior OS (hazard ratio [HR], 0.25; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.10-0.66) and PFS (HR, 0.40; 95% CI, 0.18-0.89). Results were successfully validated in a second cohort of 48 patients with a median follow-up for survivors of 12.03 months (range, 0.89-25.74 months). Patients with low MTV were found to have superior OS (HR, 0.14; 95% CI, 0.05-0.42) and PFS (HR, 0.29; 95% CI, 0.12-0.69). In conclusion, baseline MTV is associated with OS and PFS in axi-cel recipients with LBCL. CI - (c) 2020 by The American Society of Hematology. FAU - Dean, Erin A AU - Dean EA AD - Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Institute, Tampa, FL. FAU - Mhaskar, Rahul S AU - Mhaskar RS AD - Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL. FAU - Lu, Hong AU - Lu H AD - Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China. FAU - Mousa, Mina S AU - Mousa MS AD - Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology. FAU - Krivenko, Gabriel S AU - Krivenko GS AD - Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, and. FAU - Lazaryan, Aleksandr AU - Lazaryan A AD - Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, and. FAU - Bachmeier, Christina A AU - Bachmeier CA AD - Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, and. AD - Department of Pharmacy, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Institute, Tampa, FL. FAU - Chavez, Julio C AU - Chavez JC AD - Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Institute, Tampa, FL. FAU - Nishihori, Taiga AU - Nishihori T AD - Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, and. FAU - Davila, Marco L AU - Davila ML AD - Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, and. FAU - Khimani, Farhad AU - Khimani F AD - Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, and. FAU - Liu, Hien D AU - Liu HD AD - Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, and. FAU - Pinilla-Ibarz, Javier AU - Pinilla-Ibarz J AD - Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Institute, Tampa, FL. FAU - Shah, Bijal D AU - Shah BD AD - Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Institute, Tampa, FL. FAU - Jain, Michael D AU - Jain MD AD - Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, and. AD - Department of Oncologic Sciences, University of South Florida Morsani School of Medicine, Tampa, FL; and. FAU - Balagurunathan, Yoganand AU - Balagurunathan Y AD - Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and. FAU - Locke, Frederick L AU - Locke FL AD - Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, and. AD - Immunology Program, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Institute, Tampa, FL. LA - eng GR - K23 CA201594/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 CA076292/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PL - United States TA - Blood Adv JT - Blood advances JID - 101698425 RN - 0 (Antigens, CD19) RN - 0 (Biological Products) RN - U2I8T43Y7R (axicabtagene ciloleucel) SB - IM MH - *Antigens, CD19/therapeutic use MH - Biological Products MH - Humans MH - *Immunotherapy, Adoptive MH - Retrospective Studies MH - Tumor Burden PMC - PMC7391155 COIS- Conflict-of-interest disclosure: C.A.B. is a scientific advisor to Kite/Gilead and on the Novartis speaker bureau. J.C.C. is on the Kite/Gilead speaker bureau. T.N. provides research support to Novartis (to Moffitt Cancer Center on clinical trial support) and Karyopharm (to Moffitt Cancer Center on clinical trial support). M.L.D. has stock options in Adaptiv Biotechnologies and Certainty Therapeutics; personal fees in Servier, Glaxo Smith Kline, Celyad, and Kite; personal fees and stock in Precision BioScience and Bellicium Pharmaceuticals; and a CAR design patent with Atara Biotherapeutics. J.P.-I. is a consultant for Janssen, Pharmacyclics, AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Takeda, and TEVA and speaker for Janssen, AbbVie, and Takeda. B.D.S. receives personal fees from Celgene/Juno/BMS, Adaptive, Novartis, Pharmacyclics, Spectrum/Acrotech, and AstraZeneca for consultancy (<$5000/year); received grants from Jazz for an investigator-initiated trial and Incyte for salary support for research (<$5000/year); and received a grant and personal fees from Kite/Gilead for consultancy (<$5000/year) and salary support for research (<$5000/year). M.D.J. has consultancy/advisory roles with Kite/Gilead and Novartis. F.L.L. is a compensated scientific advisor to Kite/Gilead, Novartis, BMS/Celgene, Calibr, Wugen, GammaDelta Therapeutics, and Allogene and a consultant for Cellular Biomedicine Group (with grant options), and his institution holds the following patents: double-mutant survivin vaccine, CAR T cells with enhanced metabolic fitness, methods of enhancing CAR T-cell therapies, and mathematical model of CAR T evolution. The remaining authors declare no competing financial interests. EDAT- 2020/07/24 06:00 MHDA- 2021/05/15 06:00 PMCR- 2020/07/23 CRDT- 2020/07/24 06:00 PHST- 2020/03/18 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/06/01 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/07/24 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/07/24 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/05/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/07/23 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S2473-9529(20)31550-0 [pii] AID - 2020/ADV2020001900 [pii] AID - 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020001900 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Blood Adv. 2020 Jul 28;4(14):3268-3276. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020001900.