1. Impact of pre- and/or post-autologous stem cell transplantation exposure to brentuximab vedotin on survival outcomes in patients with high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma.
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Martínez, Carmen, de Haro, Manuel Espeso, Romero, Samuel, Gutiérrez, Antonio, Domingo-Domènech, Eva, González-Rodríguez, Ana P., Zeberio, Izaskun, Martínez-Badas, María Paz, Rodríguez-Izquierdo, Antonia, Carpio, Cecilia, Bastos-Oreiro, Mariana, Hernández-Rivas, José Ángel, Vallansot, Rolando, Kelleher, Nicholas, Díaz-Gálvez, Francisco J., Torrado, Tamara, Pereira, Arturo, and García-Sanz, Ramón
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STEM cell transplantation ,HODGKIN'S disease ,SURVIVAL rate ,OVERALL survival ,TREATMENT effectiveness - Abstract
The AETHERA trial demonstrated that brentuximab vedotin (BV) consolidation after autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) at high risk of relapse/progression increases progression-free survival (PFS). Patients previously exposed to BV were excluded from that trial. However, BV alone or in combination with chemotherapy is frequently used as front-line treatment and/or pre-ASCT salvage therapy. We analyzed data from 156 patients with high-risk HL who underwent ASCT with (BV-CON, n = 62) or without (non-BV, n = 94) BV consolidation. Fifty-seven patients received BV-based salvage regimens before ASCT. The 3-year overall survival and PFS for all patients were 91.6% and 70.0%, respectively. Multivariate analysis showed that BV-CON was associated with better PFS (HR 0.39, p = 0.01), whereas positive PET at transplant leaded to worse PFS (HR 2.71, p = 0.001). BV-CON improved PFS in PET-positive patients (72.2% vs. 43.0%, p = 0.05), with a beneficial trend observed in PET negative (88.8% vs. 75.2%, p = 0.09). BV-CON patients with or without BV exposure pre-ASCT had a significantly better PFS than non-BV with or without BV pretransplant treatment (HR 0.36, p = 0.004). The efficacy of real-life BV consolidation therapy was similar to that in the AETHERA trial. This therapeutic strategy improves survival independently of BV exposure prior to ASCT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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