Brentuximab vedotin in relapsed/refractory Hodgkin lymphoma. The Hellenic experience

Autor: Maria Palassopoulou, Christos A. Apostolopoulos, Nikolaos Harhalakis, Ioannis Batsis, A Spyridonidis, Theodoros P. Vassilakopoulos, Dimitrios Grentzelias, Maria K. Angelopoulou, Ioanna Sakellari, Maria Moschogiannis, Dimitrios Margaritis, Panagiota Giannoulia, Ioannis Apostolidis, Panayiotis Panayiotidis, Panagiotis Tsirigotis, Gerassimos A. Pangalis, Elias Poulakidas, Marie-Christine Kyrtsonis, Achilles Anagnostopoulos, Paraskevi Roussou, Eleutheria Hatzimichael, Zoi Bousiou, Georgios Vassilopoulos, Vasiliki Pappa, Konstantinos Anargyrou, Panagiotis Repousis, Konstantinos Gkirkas, Christina Kalpadakis, Maria Dimou, Eurydiki Michalis
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Hematological Oncology
ISSN: 1099-1069
Popis: This retrospective study aimed to describe the Hellenic experience on the use of brentuximab vedotin (BV) in relapsed/refractory (R/R) Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) given within its indication. From June 2011 to April 2015, ninety‐five patients with R/R HL, who received BV in 20 centers from Greece, were analyzed. Their median age was 33 years, and 62% were males. Sixty‐seven patients received BV after autologous stem cell transplantation failure, whereas 28 patients were treated with BV without a prior autologous stem cell transplantation, due to advanced age/comorbidities or chemorefractory disease. The median number of prior treatments was 4 and 44% of the patients were refractory to their most recent therapy. The median number of BV cycles was 8 (range, 2‐16), and the median time to best response was the fourth cycle. Fifty‐seven patients achieved an objective response: twenty‐two (23%), a complete response (CR), and 35 patients (37%), a partial, for an overall response rate of 60%. Twelve patients (13%) had stable disease, and the remaining twenty‐six (27%) had progressive disease as their best response. At a median follow‐up of 11.5 months, median progression‐free survival and overall survival were 8 and 26.5 months, respectively. Multivariate analysis showed that chemosensitivity to treatment administered before BV was associated with a significantly increased probability of achieving response to BV (P = .005). Bulky disease (P = .01) and response to BV (P
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