A phase 2 trial of CHOP with anti-CCR4 antibody mogamulizumab for elderly patients with CCR4-positive adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma.

Authors

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Ilseung Choi

Department of Hematology and Cell therapy, National Hospital Organization Kyushu Cancer Center, Fukuoka, Japan

Ilseung Choi , Makoto Yoshimitsu , Shigeru Kusumoto , Mototsugu Shimokawa , Atae Utsunomiya , Youko Suehiro , Tomonori Hidaka , Kisato Nosaka , Hidenori Sasaki , Shinya Rai , Shinobu Tamura , Satsuki Owatari , Ki-Ryang Koh , Daisuke Nakamura , Masahito Tokunaga , Masaaki Sekine , Yuma Sakamoto , Hiroshi Inagaki , Takashi Ishida , Kenji Ishitsuka

Organizations

Department of Hematology and Cell therapy, National Hospital Organization Kyushu Cancer Center, Fukuoka, Japan, Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan, Department of Biostatistics, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan, Department of Hematology, Imamura General Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan, Division of Hematology, Diabetes, and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan, Department of Hematology, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan, Division of Medical Oncology, Hematology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan, Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Department of Hematology/Oncology, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan, Department of Hematology, National Hospital Organization Kagoshima Medical Center, Kagoshima, Japan, Department of Hematology, Osaka General Hospital of West Japan Railway Company, Osaka, Japan, Department of Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan, Department of Immunology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company
Kyowa Kirin, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development

Background: No standard of care for elderly patients with aggressive adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) has been established yet. We assessed the efficacy of an anti-CCR4 antibody, mogamulizumab (Moga) combined with biweekly cyclophosphamide (CPA), doxorubicin (DXR), vincristine (VCR), and prednisone (PSL) (Moga-CHOP-14) for untreated elderly patients with aggressive ATL. Methods: In this phase 2 trial conducted at 21 centers in Japan, untreated CCR4-positive aggressive ATL patients aged 66 years or older and 56-65 years who were not candidates for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) received six cycles of Moga-CHOP-14, followed by two cycles of Moga monotherapy. The primary endpoint was 1-year progression-free survival (PFS), defined as the time from enrollment to the progression/relapse of ATL or death due to any cause, whichever occurred first. Secondary endpoints were complete response rate (CR), overall response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), 1-year event-free survival (EFS), and the incidence of adverse events. The necessary number of patients calculated by setting the threshold 1-year PFS at 16% and the expected 1-year PFS at 31% using the exact method based on binomial distribution under the conditions of one-sided level of significance of 5% (α = 0.05) and power of 70% was 43. Results: A total of 50 patients were enrolled from October 2015, until September 2020. Among the 48 evaluable patients, the median age was 74 years (interquartile range [IQR], 70-78). ATL subtypes included 31, 9, and 8 patients for the acute, lymphoma, and unfavorable chronic type, respectively. ATL-PI included 9, 31, and 8 patients for high, intermediate, and low risk, respectively. With a median follow-up of 1.6 years (IQR, 0.7-2.4), 1-year PFS was 36.2% (90% confidence interval (CI), 24.9-47.6), and a median PFS was 0.7 years (95% CI, 0.5-1.0). CR and ORR were noted in 64.6% (95%CI, 49.5-77.8), and 91.7% (95% CI, 80.0-97.7), respectively. One-year OS was 66.0% (95% CI, 50.6-77.6) and median OS was 1.6 years (95%CI, 1.1-2.8). One-year EFS was 29.9% (95% CI, 17.6-43.2) and median EFS was 0.5 years (95%CI, 0.4-0.7). The most frequent adverse events grades 3/4, which occurred in > 10% of patients were lymphocytopenia (97.9%), leukopenia (93.8%), neutropenia (89.6%), febrile neutropenia (64.8%), anemia (58.3%), thrombocytopenia (45.8%), infection (27.1%), skin rash (20.8%), and hyperglycemia (20.8%). Relative dose intensity (RDI) was calculated for each drug: the mean RDI for Moga was 82.1%, for CPA 71.7%, for DXR 72.7%, for VCR 72.0%, and for PSL 77.3%. Conclusions: This study demonstrated that Moga-CHOP-14 significantly improved PFS in elderly patients with aggressive CCR4-positive ATL who were ineligible for allo-HSCT. Moga-CHOP-14 is now considered for the preferred first-line treatment in those patients. Clinical trial information: jRCTs041180130.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2023 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Oral Abstract Session

Session Title

Hematologic Malignancies—Lymphoma and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Track

Hematologic Malignancies

Sub Track

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Clinical Trial Registration Number

jRCTs041180130

Citation

J Clin Oncol 41, 2023 (suppl 16; abstr 7504)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.7504

Abstract #

7504

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