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Date publication
janvier 2023
Journal
Blood advances
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr CASASNOVAS Olivier
Tous les auteurs :
Thieblemont C, Altmann B, Frontzek F, Renaud L, Chartier L, Ketterer N, Récher C, Poeschel V, Fitoussi O, Held G, Casasnovas O, Haioun C, Morschhauser F, Glass B, Mounier N, Tilly H, Rosenwald A, Ott G, Lenz G, Molina TJ, Ziepert M, Schmitz N
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Résumé
The majority of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) can be cured with immunochemotherapy comprising rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CHOP). Patients suffering progression or relapse in the central nervous system (CNS) face dismal outcomes. The impact of more aggressive regimens used in front-line therapy has not systematically been investigated in this context. To this end, we analyzed a large cohort of 2203 younger DLBCL patients treated on ten German and French prospective phase II and III trials following first-line therapy with R-CHOP, R-CHOEP (R-CHOP+etoposide), dose-escalated R-CHOEP followed by repetitive stem cell transplantation (R-MegaCHOEP), or rituximab, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, vindesine, bleomycine, prednisone (R-ACVBP) followed by consolidation including multiple drugs crossing the blood-brain-barrier (BBB). DLBCL patients with age-adjusted International Prognostic Index (aaIPI) of 0-1 showed very low cumulative incidence (CI) rates of CNS relapse regardless of first-line therapy and CNS prophylaxis (3-year CI 0% - 1%). Younger high-risk patients with aaIPI of 2-3 had 3-year CI rates of 1.6% and 4% after R-ACVBP plus consolidation or R-(Mega)CHO(E)P, respectively (Hazard Ratio 2.4 (95% confidence interval: 0.8-7.4), p=0.118). Thus, for younger high-risk patients, front-line regimens incorporating agents crossing the BBB may reduce often fatal CNS relapse.
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Blood Adv. 2023 01 30;:
