Abstract
Between November 2012 and July 2014, in accordance with national law 648/96, brentuximab vedotin was available in Italy for patients with relapsed systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma outside a clinical trial context. A large Italian observational retrospective study was conducted on the use of brentuximab vedotin in everyday clinical practice to check whether clinical trial results are confirmed in a real-life context. The primary endpoint of this study was best response; secondary endpoints were the overall response rate at the end of the treatment, duration of response, survival and safety profile. A total of 40 heavily pretreated patients were enrolled. Best response was observed after a median of four cycles in 77.5%: globally, 47.5% patients obtained a complete response, 64.2% in the elderly subset. The overall response rate was 62.5%. At the latest follow up, 15/18 patients are still in complete remission (3 with consolidation). The progression-free survival rate at 24 months was 39.1% and the disease-free survival rate at the same time was 54% (median not reached). All the long-term responders were aged
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1931-1935 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Haematologica |
Volume | 102 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- brentuximab vedotin
- adolescent
- adult
- aged
- allogeneic stem cell transplantation
- anaplastic large cell lymphoma
- Article
- blood toxicity
- cancer recurrence
- cancer survival
- clinical article
- computer assisted tomography
- disease free survival
- drug dose reduction
- drug efficacy
- drug safety
- drug tolerability
- erythema
- female
- human
- infusion
- Italy
- male
- median survival time
- multicenter study
- multiple cycle treatment
- nausea
- neurotoxicity
- neutropenia
- observational study
- overall survival
- phase 2 clinical trial (topic)
- positron emission tomography
- progression free survival
- retrospective study
- survival rate
- treatment response
- weakness