Ixazomib-dexamethasone (Ixa-Dex) vs physician’s choice (PC) in relapsed/refractory (RR) primary systemic AL amyloidosis (AL) patients (pts) by prior proteasome inhibitor (PI) exposure in the phase III TOURMALINE-AL1 trial.

Authors

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Efstathios Kastritis

Department of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

Efstathios Kastritis , Angela Dispenzieri , Ashutosh D. Wechalekar , Stefan O. Schönland , Kihyun Kim , Vaishali Sanchorawala , Heather Jolie Landau , Fiona Kwok , Kenshi Suzuki , Ray Comenzo , Giovanni Palladini , Deborah Berg , Guohui Liu , Arun Kumar , Douglas V. Faller , Giampaolo Merlini

Organizations

Department of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece, Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, National Amyloidosis Centre, the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Medicine V (Hematology, Oncology and Rheumatology), Amyloidosis Center Heidelberg, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, Amyloidosis Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Clinical Haematology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Department of Hematology, Tokyo, Japan, John C. Davis Myeloma and Amyloid Program, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, Amyloidosis Research and Treatment Center, Foundation IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Cambridge, MA

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

Background: The PI bortezomib is commonly used in first-line therapy of AL, but new therapies are needed that are tolerable in the context of multi-organ dysfunction and that, in RRAL, offer improved outcomes following prior bortezomib. Ixazomib is an oral PI, and in TOURMALINE-AL1, the first phase 3 trial conducted in RRAL, while the first primary endpoint of hematologic overall response rate (ORR) was not met, all clinically relevant time-to-event endpoint data favored Ixa-Dex vs PC (Dispenzieri et al, ASH 2019). Methods: RRAL pts with 1–2 prior therapies were randomized (1:1) to Ixa-Dex (n = 85) or PC (n = 83; Dex plus lenalidomide [n = 47], melphalan [n = 24], cyclophosphamide [n = 10], or thalidomide [n = 2]), stratified by cardiac stage, relapsed vs refractory disease, and prior PI exposure. The primary endpoints were hematologic ORR and 2-yr rate of vital organ deterioration or death. We report subgroup analyses of ORR and outcomes by prior PI exposure. Results: Of the 168 pts enrolled, 90 were PI-naïve and 78 PI-exposed (46 and 39 in the Ixa-Dex arm; 44 and 39 in the PC arm) per stratification; 28 and 27 pts in the Ixa-Dex and PC arms had received bortezomib in their last prior line. Hematologic ORR was 63% vs 50% for Ixa-Dex vs PC (odds ratio [OR] 1.71; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.74–3.96) in PI-naïve pts, and 41% vs 51% (OR 0.66; 95% CI 0.27–1.62) in PI-exposed pts. For time-to-event outcomes (Table), hazard ratios (HRs) were 0.46–0.85 in favor of Ixa-Dex vs PC in both PI-naïve and PI-exposed pts. Conclusions: Hematologic ORR was higher with Ixa-Dex vs PC in PI-naïve pts but lower in PI-exposed pts (although not statistically significant), and long-term clinically relevant outcomes favored Ixa-Dex in both groups. Based on HRs, the magnitude of benefit appeared similar or greater in PI-naïve vs PI-exposed pts. Clinical trial information: NCT01659658.

PI-naïvePI-exposed
Median, mosIxa-DexPCHR (95% CI)Ixa-DexPCHR (95% CI)
Time to vital organ deterioration or death44.928.00.53
(0.24–1.18);
p = 0.112
27.026.10.52
(0.27–1.01);
p = 0.050
Composite progression-free survival30.49.80.56
(0.31–1.02);
p = 0.054
7.05.50.77
(0.46–1.28);
p = 0.309
Time to treatment failure16.25.30.46
(0.27–0.79);
p = 0.004
7.05.20.76
(0.47–1.23);
p = 0.262
Time to subsequent therapy61.416.30.57
(0.29–1.09);
p = 0.084
15.712.10.66
(0.37–1.18);
p = 0.156
Overall survivalNot reached71.10.81
(0.37–1.80);
p = 0.610
40.932.40.85
(0.46–1.60);
p = 0.616

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Hematologic Malignancies—Plasma Cell Dyscrasia

Track

Hematologic Malignancies

Sub Track

Plasma Cell Disorders

Clinical Trial Registration Number

NCT01659658

Citation

J Clin Oncol 38: 2020 (suppl; abstr 8546)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2020.38.15_suppl.8546

Abstract #

8546

Poster Bd #

446

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