Fludarabine-treosulfan versus fludarabine-melphalan or busulfan-cyclophosphamide conditioning in older AML or MDS patients - A clinical trial to registry data comparison.


Journal

Bone marrow transplantation
ISSN: 1476-5365
Titre abrégé: Bone Marrow Transplant
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8702459

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
21 Feb 2024
Historique:
received: 02 09 2023
accepted: 02 02 2024
revised: 30 01 2024
medline: 22 2 2024
pubmed: 22 2 2024
entrez: 21 2 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

A randomized study (acronym: MC-FludT.14/L Trial II) demonstrated that fludarabine plus treosulfan (30 g/m²) was an effective and well tolerated conditioning regimen for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) in older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). To further evaluate this regimen, all 252 study patients aged 50 to 70 years were compared with similar patients, who underwent allo-HCT after fludarabine/melphalan (140 mg/m²) (FluMel) or busulfan (12.8 mg/kg)/cyclophosphamide (120 mg/kg) (BuCy) regimens and whose data was provided by the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation registry. In 1:1 propensity-score matched-paired analysis (PSA) of AML patients, there was no difference in 2-year-relapse-incidence after FluTreo compared with either FluMel (n = 110, p = 0.28) or BuCy (n = 78, p = 0.98). However, 2-year-non-relapse-mortality (NRM) was lower compared with FluMel (p = 0.019) and BuCy (p < 0.001). Consequently, 2-year-overall-survival (OS) after FluTreo was higher compared with FluMel (p = 0.04) and BuCy (p < 0.001). For MDS patients, no endpoint differences between FluTreo and FluMel (n = 30) were evident, whereas 2-year-OS after FluTreo was higher compared with BuCy (n = 25, p = 0.01) due to lower 2-year-NRM. Multivariate sensitivity analysis confirmed all significant results of PSA. Consequently, FluTreo (30 g/m²) seems to retain efficacy compared with FluMel and BuCy, but is better tolerated by older patients.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38383713
doi: 10.1038/s41409-024-02241-2
pii: 10.1038/s41409-024-02241-2
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eng

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Auteurs

Dietrich Wilhelm Beelen (DW)

Department of Haematology and Stem Cell Transplantation, West German Cancer Center, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany. dietrich.beelen@uk-essen.de.

Simona Iacobelli (S)

Department of Biology, University Tor Vergata of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Linda Koster (L)

EBMT Data Office Leiden, Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.

Dirk-Jan Eikema (DJ)

EBMT Data Office Leiden, Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.

Anja van Biezen (A)

EBMT Data Office Leiden, Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.

Friedrich Stölzel (F)

Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Immunotherapies, Department of Internal Medicine 2, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.
Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

Fabio Ciceri (F)

Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.

Wolfgang Bethge (W)

Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

Peter Dreger (P)

Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

Eva-Maria Wagner-Drouet (EM)

Third Department of Medicine - Hematology, Internal Oncology & Pneumology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany.

Péter Reményi (P)

St. István and St. László Hospital of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.

Matthias Stelljes (M)

Department of Medicine A, Hematology, Oncology, Hemostaseology and Pneumology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.

Miroslaw Markiewicz (M)

Department of Hematology, Institute of Medical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, University of Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland.

Donal P McLornan (DP)

University College London Hospital, London, UK.

Ibrahim Yakoub-Agha (I)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, Université Lille, INSERM U1286, Infinite, Lille, France.

Mohamad Mohty (M)

Hospital Saint-Antoine, Sorbonne Université, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Paris, France.

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