Excellent leukemia control after second hematopoietic cell transplants with unrelated cord blood grafts for post-transplant relapse in pediatric patients.

Autor: Troullioud Lucas AG; Department of Pediatrics, Transplantation and Cellular Therapies Service, MSK Kids, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States.; Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.; Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States., Boelens JJ; Department of Pediatrics, Transplantation and Cellular Therapies Service, MSK Kids, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States.; Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States., Prockop SE; Dana Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States., Curran KJ; Department of Pediatrics, Transplantation and Cellular Therapies Service, MSK Kids, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States.; Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States., Bresters D; Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.; Division of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands., Kollen W; Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.; Division of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands., Versluys B; Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.; Division of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands., Bierings MB; Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.; Division of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands., Archer A; Department of Pediatrics, Transplantation and Cellular Therapies Service, MSK Kids, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States., Davis E; Department of Pediatrics, Transplantation and Cellular Therapies Service, MSK Kids, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States., Klein E; Department of Pediatrics, Transplantation and Cellular Therapies Service, MSK Kids, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States., Kernan NA; Department of Pediatrics, Transplantation and Cellular Therapies Service, MSK Kids, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States.; Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States., Lindemans CA; Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands.; Division of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands., Scaradavou A; Department of Pediatrics, Transplantation and Cellular Therapies Service, MSK Kids, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States.; Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Frontiers in oncology [Front Oncol] 2023 Aug 15; Vol. 13, pp. 1221782. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 15 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1221782
Abstrakt: Background: Patients with leukemia relapse after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) have poor survival due to toxicity and disease progression. A second HCT often offers the only curative treatment.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed our bi-institutional experience (MSKCC-USA; Utrecht-NL) with unrelated cord blood transplantation (CBT) for treatment of post-transplant relapse. Overall survival (OS) and event-free survival (EFS) were evaluated using the Kaplan-Meier method, treatment-related mortality (TRM) and relapse were evaluated using the competing risk method by Fine-Gray.
Results: Twenty-six patients age < 21 years received a second (n=24) or third (n=2) HCT with CB grafts during the period 2009-2021. Median age at first HCT (HCT1) was 11.5 (range: 0.9-17.7) years and all patients received myeloablative cytoreduction. Median time from HCT1 to relapse was 12.8 (range 5.5-189) months. At CBT, median patient age was 13.5 (range 1.4-19.1) years. Diagnoses were AML: 13; ALL: 4, MDS: 5, JMML: 2; CML: 1; mixed phenotype acute leukemia: 1. Sixteen patients (62%) were in advanced stage, either CR>2 or with active disease. Median time from HCT1 to CBT was 22.2 (range 7-63.2) months. All patients engrafted after CBT. Thirteen patients developed acute GvHD; 7 had grade III or IV. With a median survivor follow-up of 46.6 (range 17.4-155) months, 3-year OS was 69.2% (95% CI 53.6-89.5%) and 3-year EFS was 64.9% (95% CI 48.8-86.4%). Eight patients died, 3 of AML relapse and 5 due to toxicity (respiratory failure [n=4], GvHD [n=1]) at a median time of 7.7 (range 5.9-14.4) months after CBT. Cumulative incidence of TRM at 3 years was 19.2% (95% CI 4.1-34.4%). Notably, all TRM events occurred in patients transplanted up to 2015; no toxicity-related deaths were seen in the 16 patients who received CBT after 2015. Cumulative incidence of relapse was 15.9% (95% CI 1.6-30.2%) at 3 years, remarkably low for these very high-risk patients.
Conclusions: Survival was very encouraging following CB transplants in pediatric patients with recurrent leukemia after first HCT, and TRM has been low over the last decade. CBT needs to be strongly considered as a relatively safe salvage therapy option for post-transplant relapse.
Competing Interests: SP receives support for the conduct of sponsored trials: Atara, AlloVir, Jasper. Consulting CellEvolve, Pierre Fabre. Honoraria: Regeneron. Advisor Board: Smartimmune. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be constructed as a potential conflict of interest.
(Copyright © 2023 Troullioud Lucas, Boelens, Prockop, Curran, Bresters, Kollen, Versluys, Bierings, Archer, Davis, Klein, Kernan, Lindemans and Scaradavou.)
Databáze: MEDLINE