ATG or post-transplant cyclophosphamide to prevent GVHD in matched unrelated stem cell transplantation?


Journal

Leukemia
ISSN: 1476-5551
Titre abrégé: Leukemia
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8704895

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
27 Mar 2024
Historique:
received: 19 01 2024
accepted: 08 03 2024
revised: 06 03 2024
medline: 28 3 2024
pubmed: 28 3 2024
entrez: 28 3 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

There is a high risk of GVHD and non-relapse mortality (NRM) after allogeneic stem cell transplantations (alloSCT) from unrelated donors. Prophylaxis with rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (rATG) is standard in Europe but post-transplantation Cyclophosphamide (PTCy) is an emerging alternative. We analyzed outcomes of rATG (n = 7725) vs. PTCy (n = 1039) prophylaxis in adult patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing peripheral blood alloSCT from 10/10 antigen-matched unrelated donors (MUD) between January 2018 and June 2021 in the EBMT database. The provided P-values and hazard ratios (HR) are derived from multivariate analysis. Two years after alloSCT, NRM in the PTCy group was 12.1% vs. 16.4% in the rATG group; p = 0.016; HR 0.72. Relapse was less frequent after PTCy vs. rATG (22.8% vs. 26.6%; p = 0.046; HR 0.87). Overall survival after PTCy was higher (73.1% vs. 65.9%; p = 0.001, HR 0.82). Progression free survival was better after PTCy vs. rATG (64.9% vs. 57.2%; p < 0.001, HR 0.83). The incidence of chronic GVHD was lower after PTCy (28.4% vs. rATG 31.4%; p = 0.012; HR 0.77), whereas the incidence and severity of acute GVHD were not significantly different. GVHD-free relapse-free survival was significantly higher in the PTCy arm compared to the rATG arm (2 y incidence: 51% vs. 45%; HR: 0.86 [95% CI 0.75-0.99], p = 0.035). In the absence of evidence from randomized controlled trials, our findings support a preference for the use of PTCy in adult recipients of peripheral blood alloSCTs from MUD.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38538862
doi: 10.1038/s41375-024-02225-7
pii: 10.1038/s41375-024-02225-7
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Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Olaf Penack (O)

Medical Clinic, Department for Haematology, Oncology and Tumorimmunology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. olaf.penack@charite.de.
EBMT Transplant Complications Working Party, Paris, France. olaf.penack@charite.de.

Mouad Abouqateb (M)

EBMT Transplant Complications Working Party, Paris, France.
EBMT Paris study office; Department of Haematology, Saint Antoine Hospital; INSERM UMR-S 938, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

Christophe Peczynski (C)

EBMT Transplant Complications Working Party, Paris, France.
EBMT Paris study office; Department of Haematology, Saint Antoine Hospital; INSERM UMR-S 938, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

William Boreland (W)

EBMT Transplant Complications Working Party, Paris, France.
EBMT Paris study office; Department of Haematology, Saint Antoine Hospital; INSERM UMR-S 938, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

Nicolaus Kröger (N)

University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.

Matthias Stelljes (M)

University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.

Tobias Gedde-Dahl (T)

Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway.

Igor Wolfgang Blau (IW)

Medical Clinic, Department for Haematology, Oncology and Tumorimmunology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Thomas Schroeder (T)

University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.

Urpu Salmenniemi (U)

HUCH Comprehensive Cancer Center, Helsinki, Finland.

Alexander Kulagin (A)

RM Gorbacheva Research Institute, Pavlov University, St Petersburg, Russia.

Régis Peffault de Latour (R)

Saint-Louis Hospital, BMT Unit, Paris, France.

Stephan Mielke (S)

Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

Robert Zeiser (R)

Department of Medicine I, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Centre, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Ivan Moiseev (I)

RM Gorbacheva Research Institute, Pavlov University, St Petersburg, Russia.

Hélène Schoemans (H)

EBMT Transplant Complications Working Party, Paris, France.
Department of Hematology, University Hospitals Leuven and Department of Public Health and Primary Care, ACCENT VV, KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Christian Koenecke (C)

EBMT Transplant Complications Working Party, Paris, France.
Department of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.

Zinaida Peric (Z)

EBMT Transplant Complications Working Party, Paris, France.
Department of Haematology, University Hospital Centre Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.

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