PMID- 34478487 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20211101 LR - 20220330 IS - 2473-9537 (Electronic) IS - 2473-9529 (Print) IS - 2473-9529 (Linking) VI - 5 IP - 20 DP - 2021 Oct 26 TI - Comparison of 2-year outcomes with CAR T cells (ZUMA-1) vs salvage chemotherapy in refractory large B-cell lymphoma. PG - 4149-4155 LID - 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020003848 [doi] AB - The SCHOLAR-1 international retrospective study highlighted poor clinical outcomes and survival among patients with refractory large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) treated with conventional chemotherapy. Axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel), an autologous anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, demonstrated durable responses in patients with refractory LBCL in the pivotal phase 1/2 ZUMA-1 study (NCT02348216). Here, we compared SCHOLAR-1 with the 2-year outcomes of ZUMA-1. Prior to comparison of clinical outcomes, propensity scoring (based on a broad set of prognostic covariates) was used to create balance between ZUMA-1 and SCHOLAR-1 patients. In the pivotal phase 2 portion of ZUMA-1, 101 patients received axi-cel and were evaluable for response and survival. In SCHOLAR-1, 434 and 424 patients were evaluable for response and survival, respectively. ZUMA-1 patients were more heavily pretreated than were SCHOLAR-1 patients. The median follow-up was 27.1 months in ZUMA-1. The objective response rate (ORR) and complete response rate were 83% and 54% in ZUMA-1 vs 34% and 12% in SCHOLAR-1, respectively. The 2-year survival rate was 54% in ZUMA-1 and 20% in SCHOLAR-1, and a 73% reduction in the risk of death was observed in ZUMA-1 vs SCHOLAR-1. These results were consistent with those of an additional standardization analysis in which strata were limited to 2 prognostic factors (refractory categorization and presence/absence of stem cell transplant after refractoriness to chemotherapy) to conserve sample size. Despite the limitations of a nonrandomized analysis, these results indicate that axi-cel produces durable responses and a substantial survival benefit vs non-CAR T-cell salvage regimens for patients with refractory LBCL. CI - (c) 2021 by The American Society of Hematology. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), permitting only noncommercial, nonderivative use with attribution. All other rights reserved. FAU - Neelapu, Sattva S AU - Neelapu SS AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1045-4914 AD - Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX. FAU - Locke, Frederick L AU - Locke FL AD - Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL. FAU - Bartlett, Nancy L AU - Bartlett NL AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8470-394X AD - Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University Medical School, St Louis, MO. FAU - Lekakis, Lazaros J AU - Lekakis LJ AD - Sylvester Comprehensive Care Center, University of Miami Health System, Miami, FL. FAU - Reagan, Patrick M AU - Reagan PM AD - James P. Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY. FAU - Miklos, David B AU - Miklos DB AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0717-4305 AD - Department of Medicine - Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA. FAU - Jacobson, Caron A AU - Jacobson CA AD - Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA. FAU - Braunschweig, Ira AU - Braunschweig I AD - Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. FAU - Oluwole, Olalekan O AU - Oluwole OO AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8525-9641 AD - Division of Hematology/Oncology, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN. FAU - Siddiqi, Tanya AU - Siddiqi T AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5292-8298 AD - Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA. FAU - Lin, Yi AU - Lin Y AD - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. FAU - Crump, Michael AU - Crump M AD - Canadian Cancer Trials Group, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada. FAU - Kuruvilla, John AU - Kuruvilla J AD - Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, ON, Canada. FAU - Van Den Neste, Eric AU - Van Den Neste E AD - Department of Hematology, Cliniques Universitaires UCL Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium. FAU - Farooq, Umar AU - Farooq U AD - Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. FAU - Navale, Lynn AU - Navale L AD - Kite, a Gilead Company, Santa Monica, CA. FAU - DePuy, Venita AU - DePuy V AD - Bowden Analytics, Raleigh, NC; and. FAU - Kim, Jenny J AU - Kim JJ AD - Kite, a Gilead Company, Santa Monica, CA. FAU - Gisselbrecht, Christian AU - Gisselbrecht C AD - Hopital Saint Louis, Paris, France. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Blood Adv JT - Blood advances JID - 101698425 SB - IM MH - Humans MH - *Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse/drug therapy MH - Retrospective Studies MH - Salvage Therapy MH - Survival Rate MH - T-Lymphocytes PMC - PMC8945634 EDAT- 2021/09/04 06:00 MHDA- 2021/11/03 06:00 PMCR- 2021/10/22 CRDT- 2021/09/03 17:19 PHST- 2020/11/18 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/05/20 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/09/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/11/03 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/09/03 17:19 [entrez] PHST- 2021/10/22 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S2473-9529(21)00502-4 [pii] AID - 2021/ADV2020003848 [pii] AID - 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020003848 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Blood Adv. 2021 Oct 26;5(20):4149-4155. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020003848.