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Reduced-Intensity Conditioning with Fludarabine, Cyclophosphamide, and High-Dose Rituximab for Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Follicular Lymphoma: A Phase Two Multicenter Trial from the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2016 Aug;22(8):1440-1448

Date

04/28/2016

Pubmed ID

27118571

Pubmed Central ID

PMC4949103

DOI

10.1016/j.bbmt.2016.04.014

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-84973901396 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   43 Citations

Abstract

Allogeneic (allo) hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) can induce long-term remissions in chemosensitive relapsed follicular lymphoma (FL). The Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network conducted a multicenter phase 2 trial to examine the efficacy of alloHCT using reduced-intensity conditioning with rituximab (RTX) in multiply relapsed, chemosensitive FL. The primary endpoint was 2-year progression-free survival (PFS). The conditioning regimen consisted of fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and high-dose RTX (FCR), in which 3 of the 4 doses of RTX were administered at a dose of 1 gm/m(2). Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis was with tacrolimus and methotrexate. Sixty-five patients were enrolled and 62 were evaluable. Median age was 55 years (range, 29 to 74). This group was heavily pretreated: 77% had received ≥ 3 prior regimens, 32% had received ≥ 5 prior regimens, and 11% had received prior autologous HCT. Donors were HLA-matched siblings (n = 33) or HLA-matched unrelated adults (n = 29). No graft failures occurred. The overall response rate after HCT was 94% with 90% in complete remission (CR), including 24 patients not in CR before alloHCT. With a median follow-up of 47 months (range, 30 to 73), 3-year PFS and overall survival rates were 71% (95% confidence interval, 58% to 81%) and 82% (95% confidence interval, 70% to 90%), respectively. Three-year cumulative incidences of relapse/progression and nonrelapse mortality were 13% and 16%, respectively. Two-year cumulative incidences of grades 2 to 4 and grades 3 or 4 acute GVHD were 27% and 10%, respectively, and extensive chronic GVHD incidence was 55%. Serum RTX concentrations peaked at day +28 and remained detectable as late as 1 year in 59% of patients with available data. In conclusion, alloHCT with FCR conditioning confers high CR rates, a low incidence of relapse/progression, and excellent survival probabilities in heavily pretreated FL patients.

Author List

Laport GG, Wu J, Logan B, Bachanova V, Hosing C, Fenske T, Longo W, Devine SM, Nademanee A, Gersten I, Horowitz M, Lazarus HM, Riches ML, Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network

Authors

Mary M. Horowitz MD, MS Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Brent R. Logan PhD Director, Professor in the Data Science Institute department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Walter L. Longo MD Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin




MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Adult
Aged
Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological
Cyclophosphamide
Graft vs Host Disease
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Humans
Lymphoma, Follicular
Middle Aged
Myeloablative Agonists
Recurrence
Remission Induction
Rituximab
Salvage Therapy
Survival Analysis
Transplantation Conditioning
Transplantation, Homologous
Treatment Outcome
Vidarabine