Post-remission treatment with allogeneic stem cell transplantation in patients aged 60 years and older with acute myeloid leukaemia: a time-dependent analysis

Autor: Versluis J Hazenberg CL Passweg JR van Putten WL Maertens J Biemond BJ Theobald M Graux C Ku
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Zdroj: Lancet Haematol
Popis: Post remission treatment (PRT) in patients with cytogenetically normal (CN) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in first complete remission (CR1) is debated. We studied 521 patients with CN AML in CR1 for whom mutational status of NPM1 and FLT3 ITD was available including the FLT3 ITD allelic ratio. PRT consisted of reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) (n=68) myeloablative conditioning (MAC) alloHSCT (n=137) autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (autoHSCT) (n=168) or chemotherapy (n=148). Favorable overall survival (OS) was found for patients with mutated NPM1 without FLT3 ITD (71±4). Outcome in patients with a high FLT3 ITD allelic ratio appeared to be very poor with OS and relapse free survival (RFS) of 23±8 and 12±6 respectively. Patients with wild type NPM1 without FLT3 ITD or with a low allelic burden of FLT3 ITD were considered as intermediate risk group because of similar OS and RFS at 5 years in which PRT by RIC alloHSCT resulted in better OS and RFS as compared with chemotherapy (hazard ratio (HR) 0.56 P=0.022 and HR 0.50 P=0.004 respectively) or autoHSCT (HR 0.60 P=0.046 and HR 0.60 P=0.043 respectively). The lowest cumulative incidence of relapse (23±4) was observed following MAC alloHSCT. These results suggest that alloHSCT may be preferred in patients with molecularly intermediate risk CN AML while the choice of conditioning type may be personalized according to risk for non relapse mortality.
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