Outcomes of Hispanic and non-Hispanic white pediatric and young adult patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia after commercial tisagenlecleucel.

Authors

Panayiotis Vandris

Panayiotis Vandris

Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

Panayiotis Vandris , Karen Chao , Christina Baggott , Christine L. Phillips , Muna Qayed , Jenna Rossoff , Stephanie J. Si Lim , Lena E. Winestone , Heather E. Stefanski , Julie-An M. Talano , Steven Margossian , Michael R. Verneris , Gary Douglas Myers , Nicole A. Karras , Patrick A. Brown , Prakash Satwani , Crystal Mackall , Kevin J. Curran , Theodore Willis Laetsch , Liora M. Schultz

Organizations

Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL, University of Hawaiʻi School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI, University of California San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco, CA, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, Cue Biopharma, Cambridge, MA, Children's Hospital of Colorado, Aurora, CA, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Research Funding

No funding received

Background: Population-level data show significantly inferior outcomes for Hispanic children, adolescents, and young adults (CAYA) diagnosed with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) relative to non-Hispanic whites (NHW). Here, we compare outcomes between Hispanic and NHW CAYA patients with relapsed and/or refractory (RR) B-ALL receiving tisagenlecleucel, a CD19-specific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy. Methods: We used data from the Pediatric Real World CAR Consortium retrospective cohort of 200 patients who underwent cell shipment for standard-of-care tisagenlecleucel between August 2017 and March 2020 (N=15 US institutions). Race/ethnicity was identified by medical record review. Patients reported as belonging to more than one racial/ethnic group were classified as multiracial and excluded from analysis. Baseline factors, outcomes, and safety post-infusion were characterized for Hispanic vs. NHW infused patients. Outcomes included complete response (CR) rate, overall survival (OS), duration of response (DOR), and duration of B-cell aplasia (DBA). A multivariate Cox model for OS was constructed, including all baseline factors. Results: Among 185 infused patients, 90 (48.6%) were NHW and 70 (37.8%) were Hispanic. Among 15 non-infused patients, 3 (20.0%) were NHW and 5 (33.3%) were Hispanic. Hispanic patients were significantly older at diagnosis (mean: 10.7 vs. 8.3 years, p=0.02) and had significantly shorter time from diagnosis to infusion (mean: 34.4 vs. 46.4 months, p=0.04). Hispanic and NHW patients did not significantly differ across sex, leukemia type, number of prior lines of therapy, receipt of prior CD19-directed therapy, level of disease burden pre-infusion, and number of relapses pre-infusion. Hispanic and NHW patients did not significantly differ across 1-month CR, 6-month OS, 1-year OS, 18-month OS, 6-month DOR, 1-year DOR, 6-month DBA, and 1-year DBA (Table). On multivariate analysis including the above covariates, OS did not significantly differ for Hispanic patients (HR=1.04, p=0.92). Hispanic and NHW patients did not significantly differ across grade ≥ 3 cytokine release syndrome, grade ≥ 3 neurotoxicity, grade 4 neutropenia, tumor lysis syndrome, or number of infections post-infusion. Conclusions: Outcomes were similar between Hispanic and NHW CAYA RR B-ALL patients receiving tisagenlecleucel in the real-world setting. Increasing access to CAR therapy among Hispanic CAYA B-ALL patients could help mitigate population-level disparities in outcomes observed after receipt of conventional therapies.

Outcomes for Hispanic vs. NHW patients.

Outcome (%)
Hispanic
NHW
P-value
1-month CR
81.4
88.8
0.19
6-month OS
89.7
83.4
0.82
1-year OS
71.9
71.2
0.62
18-month OS
68.2
71.2
0.62
6-month DOR
74.2
72.8
0.34
1-year DOR
62.3
60.7
0.42
6-month DBA
59.5
64.7
0.87
1-year DBA
52.1
50.0
0.85

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2022 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Discussion Session

Session Title

Pediatric Oncology

Track

Pediatric Oncology

Sub Track

Leukemia/Lymphoma

Citation

J Clin Oncol 40, 2022 (suppl 16; abstr 10016)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2022.40.16_suppl.10016

Abstract #

10016

Poster Bd #

231

Abstract Disclosures