Silent NK/T cell reactions to dasatinib during sustained deep molecular response before cessation are associated with longer treatment-free remission

Autor: Tadashi Murase, Kaichi Nishiwaki, Hisashi Sakamaki, Naoki Takezako, Kosei Matsue, Junichi Sakamoto, Chiaki Nakaseko, Satoshi Morita, Kazuteru Ohashi, Yasuji Kouzai, Hina Takano, Takashi Kumagai, Hisashi Wakita, Shimousa Hematology Study Groups Kanto Cml, Chikashi Yoshida, Koiti Inokuchi
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Cancer Science
ISSN: 1349-7006
Popis: This study presents the final report of the multicenter, prospective tyrosine kinase inhibitor discontinuation study, D‐STOP, after a 3‐year follow‐up of 54 patients with chronic CML who discontinued dasatinib after a sustained deep molecular response (DMR) for ≥2 years with dasatinib treatment. Estimated treatment‐free remission (TFR) rates at 12 and 36 months were 63.0% [95% confidence interval (CI): 48.7‐74.3] and 59.3% (95% CI: 45.0‐71.0), respectively. CD3−CD56+ NK, CD16+CD56+ NK, and CD57+CD56+ NK large granular lymphocyte (NK‐LGL), CD8+CD4– cytotoxic T cell, and CD57+CD3+ T‐LGL cell numbers were relatively elevated throughout the 24‐month consolidation only in failed patients who molecularly relapsed within 12 months. In successful patients, these subsets elevated transiently after 12 months, but returned to basal levels after 24‐month consolidation. Therefore, smaller changes in NK/T, particularly the NK subset throughout consolidation, reflected higher TFR rates. TFR rates of those patients exhibiting elevation in CD3−CD56+ NK >376 cells/μL, CD16+CD56+ NK > 241 cells/μL, or CD57+CD56+ NK‐LGL >242 cells/μL during consolidation compared with others were 26.7% (8.3%‐49.6%) vs 78.3% (55.4%‐90.3%), HR 0.032 (0.0027‐0.38; P = .0064), 31.2% (11.4%‐53.6%) vs 85.0% (60.4%‐94.9%), HR 0.039 (0.0031‐0.48; P = .011), or 36.8% (16.5%‐57.5%) vs 77.3% (53.7%‐89.8%), HR 0.21 (0.065‐0.69; P = .010), respectively. Therefore, silent responses of T/NK subsets to dasatinib throughout consolidation were significant for longer TFR. Elevated NK/T, particularly NK lymphocytes responsive to dasatinib, may be immunologically insufficient to maintain TFR. Their decline, subsequently replaced by altered lymphocyte population with less response to dasatinib during sustained DMR, might be immunologically significant. (D‐STOP, NCT01627132).
The figure shows that silent NK/T cell reactions against dasatinib, particularly that of NK cells, during sustained DMR before dasatinib discontinuation are significant for longer treatment‐free remission.
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