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Nagler A, Galimard J, Labopin M, Blaise D, Arcese W, Trisolini SM, Wu D, Pigneux A, Van Gorkom G, Rubio M, Gedde‐Dahl T, Huynh A, Lanza F, Gorin N, Mohty M. Autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) for acute myeloid leukemia in patients in first complete remission after one versus two induction courses: A study from the ALWP of the EBMT. Cancer Med 2022; 12:1482-1491. [PMID: 35891608 PMCID: PMC9883552 DOI: 10.1002/cam4.5039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2022] [Revised: 06/19/2022] [Accepted: 07/07/2022] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Achieving complete remission (CR) is the main goal in AML treatment and a prerequisite for successful autologous stem cell transplantation (ACT). METHODS Comparing results of peripheral blood ACT in patients with AML in CR1 attained following 1 versus 2 chemotherapy courses transplanted in 2000-2019. RESULTS Patients 1532 (84%) with one and 293 (16%) patients with two induction chemotherapies courses (a total of 1825 patients) were included in the study. Follow-up was 7.9 (95% CI: 7.4-8.4) and 7.7 (95% CI: 7.0-8.6) years (p = 0.8). Time from diagnosis to ACT was 4.7 (range, 3.9-5.8) versus 5.7 (range, 4.7-7.1) months (p < 0.001), respectively. Leukemia free survival (LFS) and overall survival (OS) at 5 years were inferior for patients achieving CR1 with 2 versus 1 course of chemotherapy: 26.6% versus 41.7% (HR = 1.42 [95% CI: 1.22-1.66], p < 0.001) and 36.2% versus 53.3%, (HR = 1.48 [95% CI: 1.25-1.75], p < 0.001), and 5-year relapse incidence (RI) was higher: 67.2% versus 52.3%, (HR = 1.46 [95% CI: 1.25-1.72], p < 0.001). Five-year non-relapse mortality (NRM) was 6.2% versus 6.0% for patients with 2 versus 1 chemotherapy courses, and did not differ significantly (HR = 1.31 [95% CI: 0.81-2.10], p = 0.27). CONCLUSIONS LFS and OS were inferior and relapse rate was higher in AML patients who received two inductions chemotherapy courses to reach CR1 before being autografted. AML patients who required 2 induction courses to achieve remission, may be offered allogeneic transplantation rather than an autologous one in an attempt to reduce their high RI and improve outcomes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Arnon Nagler
- Division of HematologySheba Medical CenterTel HashomerIsrael
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- EBMT Statistical UnitParisFrance,Department of Clinical Hematology and Cellular Therapy, Saint‐Antoine Hospital, AP‐HPSorbonne UniversityParisFrance,Sorbonne University, INSERM, Saint‐Antoine Research CentreParisFrance
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- Programme de Transplantation & Therapie Cellulaire; Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de MarseilleInstitut Paoli CalmettesMarseilleFrance
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- Hematology, Department of Translational and Precision MedicineSapienza UniversityRomeItaly
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- First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Department of HematologySuzhouChina
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- Service d'Hématologie et Thérapie Cellulaire, CHU BordeauxBordeauxFrance
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- University Hospital Maastricht, Department of Internal Medicine Hematology/OncologyMaastrichtThe Netherlands
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- Department of Hematology, Brabois HospitalCentre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire (CHRU)NancyFrance
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- Department of Hematology, Institute of Clinical MedicineUniversity of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital‐RikshospitaletOsloNorway
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- Hematology DepartmentInstitut Universitaire du Cancer Toulouse‐OncopoleToulouseFrance
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- Department of Clinical Hematology and Cellular Therapy, Saint‐Antoine Hospital, AP‐HPSorbonne UniversityParisFrance,Sorbonne University, INSERM, Saint‐Antoine Research CentreParisFrance
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- Department of Clinical Hematology and Cellular Therapy, Saint‐Antoine Hospital, AP‐HPSorbonne UniversityParisFrance,Sorbonne University, INSERM, Saint‐Antoine Research CentreParisFrance
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Nagler A, Labopin M, Huang XJ, Blaise D, Arcese W, Araujo MC, Socié G, Forcade E, Ciceri F, Canaani J, Giebel S, Brissot E, Caballer JS, Bazarbachi A, Yakoub-Agha I, Mohty M. Non-T depleted haploidentical stem cell transplantation in AML patients achieving first complete remission after one versus two induction courses: a study from the ALWP/EBMT. Bone Marrow Transplant 2022; 57:572-578. [PMID: 35105964 DOI: 10.1038/s41409-021-01537-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
There are no data indicating whether the number of induction courses needed to achieve first complete remission (CR1) is of prognostic significance in Haploidentical transplantation (HaploSCT). We compared transplantation outcomes of adults with AML that underwent HaploSCT in CR1, achieved following one or two induction courses. A total of 635 patients were included: 469 (74%) with 1 and 166 (26%) with two induction chemotherapy courses. A total of 429 (91.5%) and 151 (91%) patients had de novo AML and 40 (8.5%) and 15 (9%) had secondary AML (p = 0.84). Engraftment rates were 97.2 and 97.6%. Day 180 incidence of acute GVHD II-IV and III-IV was similar in both induction groups (31.1 and 34.8%, and 10 and 10.6 %), as was 2-4 year total and extensive chronic GVHD (33.7 and 36.5 %, and 12.2 and 12.1%), respectively. Two-year relapse incidence (RI) was higher while leukemia-free survival (LFS), overall survival (OS) and GVHD-free, relapse-free survival (GRFS) were inferior for patients achieving CR1 with 2 vs 1 course and were 29.1% vs 15.1%, 88 (p = 0.001), 56.2% vs 66.9% (p = 0.03), 58.8% vs 72.2% (p = 0.044) and 44% vs 55.6% (p = 0.013), respectively. Non-relapse mortality (NRM) did not differ, 18% vs 14.6% 90 (p = 0.25). These results were confirmed by multivariate analysis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Arnon Nagler
- Division of Hematology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel. .,ALWP of the EBMT Paris office, Paris, France.
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- ALWP of the EBMT Paris office, Paris, France.,Sorbonne University, Department of Haematology, Saint Antoine Hospital; INSERM UMR 938, Paris, France
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- Institute of Hematology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Departement D'Hematologie, Programme de Transplantation et de Therapie Cellulaire, Centre de Recherche en Cancerologie de Marseille, Institut Paoli Calmettes, Marseille, France
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- Rome Transplant Network, Università Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hematology Stem Cell Transplantation, Saint Louis Hospital, Paris, France
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- Hematology and BMT Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Hematology Division, Sheba Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland
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- Service d'Hématologie Clinique et Thérapie Cellulaire, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMRs 938, Paris, France
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- Bone Marrow Transplantation Program, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Haematology, Saint Antoine Hospital, INSERM UMR 938 and Sorbonne University, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne University, Department of Haematology, Saint Antoine Hospital; INSERM UMR 938, Paris, France
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Halpern AB, Estey EH. More general incorporation of hemoglobin level into response criteria for myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia with increase in minimum red cell transfusion levels. Leuk Lymphoma 2021; 63:514-517. [PMID: 34749576 DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2021.1999446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Anna B Halpern
- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Shallis RM, Pollyea DA, Zeidan AM. The complete story of less than complete responses: The evolution and application of acute myeloid leukemia clinical responses. Blood Rev 2021; 48:100806. [PMID: 33531169 DOI: 10.1016/j.blre.2021.100806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2020] [Revised: 11/13/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
Abstract
Complete remission (CR) has long been the critical therapeutic response in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, "less than CR" responses have been and continue to be proposed to define clinically meaningful post-therapy outcomes. These responses include CR with incomplete recovery (CRi), CR with incomplete platelet recovery (CRp) and, most recently, CR with partial hematologic recovery (CRh), which has been introduced and subsequently used for regulatory approval. However, the clinical benefits associated with "less than CR" responses have primarily been evaluated in the context of intensive therapies. In an era with sophisticated measurable residual disease (MRD) assessments, including flow-based, cytogenetic and molecular techniques, and an increase in "targeted", non-intensive therapies, the clinical value of responses that are "less than CR" must be reevaluated. Improvements in the rate of CR has not always led to improvements in OS among older patients. As such, MRD techniques might help define a more stringent response criterion (MRD-negative CR) that might better correlate with OS and should be incorporated in future clinical trials. Here we discuss the evolution of CR and "less than CR" responses, data regarding their clinical benefits, and considerations relevant to response assessments with newer therapies.
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- Rory M Shallis
- Section of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Section of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT, USA.
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Farweez BAT, Shalaby NA, Eissa DAG, Galal RESAM, El-khazragy N, Pessar SA. Lymphoid enhancer-binding factor 1 (LEF-1): a favorable prognostic factor in adult acute myeloid leukemia in Egyptian patients. EGYPTIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL HUMAN GENETICS 2020. [DOI: 10.1186/s43042-020-00073-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background
Canonical wingless-type (Wnt) signaling is a crucial pathway involved in normal hematopoiesis and the self-renewal process of hematopoietic stem cells. Deregulation of this pathway has been associated with different subtypes of leukemia. Lymphoid enhancer-binding factor 1 (LEF-1) is a major transcription factor of this pathway and plays a pivotal role in lymphoid differentiation and granulopoiesis. High LEF-1 expression has been reported as a prognostic marker in several types of adult hematological malignancies. We aimed to assess the prognostic utility of LEF-1 expression in adult de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML) Egyptian patients in continuation of our previous work. LEF-1 expression was analyzed by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in 30 adults with newly diagnosed AML and remeasured at day 28 after induction therapy with the assessment of remission status.
Results
Patients were classified according to median expression level into high and low LEF-1 expression groups. LEF-1 levels were dramatically decreased following successful induction therapy. Also, high LEF-1 expression patients had a better response to therapy with better overall survival. ROC curve analysis of LEF-1 expression yielded a cutoff value of < 10.11 log10 (sensitivity of 90.48% and specificity of 100%) for predicting poor outcome. Univariate logistic regression analysis showed that for every log10 increase in the LEF-1 expression level, the chance of the patient to achieve hematological remission was increased by 2.29 folds.
Conclusion
Our study showed preliminary results that overexpression of LEF-1 is a favorable prognostic factor in newly diagnosed adult AML patients. The prognostic value of LEF-1 could suggest its utility for further risk classifications of AML and potentiality for being a target for therapy.
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Estey EH. Acute myeloid leukemia: 2021 update on risk-stratification and management. Am J Hematol 2020; 95:1368-1398. [PMID: 32833263 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.25975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 08/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Management of AML involves choosing between purely palliative care, standard therapy and investigational therapy ("clinical trial"). Even most older patients likely benefit from treatment. Based on randomized trials CPX 351, midostaurin, gemtuzumab ozogamicin, and venetoclax, the latter three when combined with other drugs, should now be considered standard therapy. Knowledge of the likely results with these therapies is essential in deciding whether to recommend them or participate in a clinical trial, possibly including these drugs. Hence here, in the context of established prognostic algorithms, we review results with the recently- approved drugs compared with their predecessors and describe other potential options. We discuss benefit/risk ratios underlying the decision to offer allogeneic transplant and emphasize the importance of measurable residual disease. When first seeing a newly-diagnosed patient physicians must decide whether to offer conventional treatment or investigational therapy, the latter preferably in the context of a clinical trial. As noted below, such trials have led to changes in what today is considered "conventional" therapy compared to even 1-2 years ago. In older patients decision making has often included inquiring whether specific anti-AML therapy should be offered at all, rather than focusing on a purely palliative approach emphasizing transfusion and antibiotic support, with involvement of a palliative care specialist.
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- Elihu H. Estey
- Division of Hematology University of Washington Seattle Washington
- Clinical Research Division Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle Washington
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Stein EM, DiNardo CD, Pollyea DA, Schuh AC. Response Kinetics and Clinical Benefits of Nonintensive AML Therapies in the Absence of Morphologic Response. CLINICAL LYMPHOMA MYELOMA & LEUKEMIA 2020; 20:e66-e75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clml.2019.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2019] [Revised: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Estey EH. Acute myeloid leukemia: 2019 update on risk-stratification and management. Am J Hematol 2018; 93:1267-1291. [PMID: 30328165 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.25214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 245] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2018] [Revised: 06/26/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Outcome in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) ranges from death within a few days of beginning treatment (treatment related mortality, TRM) to likely cure. The major reason patients are not cured is resistance to treatment, often manifested as relapse from remission, rather than, even in older patients, TRM, whose incidence is decreasing. Knowledge of the pre-treatment mutation status of various genes has improved our ability to assign initial treatment and, of particular importance, knowledge of whether patients ostensibly in remission have measurable residual disease should influence subsequent management. Several new drugs have been approved by the FDA and we discuss their role in treatment.
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- Elihu H. Estey
- Division of Hematology, Clinical Research Division; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington and Member; Seattle Washington
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