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Nirav N. Shah, MD, on DLBCL: New Data on Split-Dose R-CHOP for Older Patients

2023 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Nirav N. Shah, MD, of the Medical College of Wisconsin, discusses phase II results showing that split-dose R-CHOP offers older patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) an equivalent dose intensity as R-CHOP-21 through a fractionated dosing schedule, improving tolerability. At the end of treatment for these older patients, a complete response rate of 71% was comparable to outcomes with R-CHOP in younger patients with the disease (Abstract 7554).



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The optimal management of older patients with DLBCL remains unclear and is very variable from practice to practice. The most commonly used regimen for older patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is a regimen called R-mini-CHOP, which is more or less a 50% dose reduction in the cumulative chemotherapy compared to a younger patient who gets R-CHOP21. At our institution, we have developed a regimen called split-dose R-CHOP, which basically fractionates R-CHOP21 into two half doses with full-dose rituximab given on day one, and a 50% dose reduction of the CHOP regimen on day one and day 15, so that a 28-day cycle of split-dose R-CHOP gave the same chemo cumulative dose of chemotherapy as R-CHOP21. We designed this study as a way to deliver the same dose intensity to older patients, but by fractionating it, making it more tolerable to a patient population that's at higher risk of the toxicities associated with chemotherapy. In addition, because older patients could benefit from a truncated chemotherapy regimen, we included an interim analysis of patients, where we looked at them using PET-CT and MRD, using a cell-free DNA assay- [inaudible 00:01:33]- ... to look at the depth of response after two months of split-dose R-CHOP. For those patients who are both MRD-negative and, by Deauville criteria, a PET score of one, two, or three, those patients were then offered an abbreviated chemotherapy arm where they would finish after four months of split-dose R-CHOP instead of six months. Here, we are presenting our interim feasibility endpoint, which was based on the end-of-treatment CR rate. We're reporting data on 14 patients who have completed treatment, and our end-of-CR rate with 71%, meeting our interim feasibility endpoint early with 10 of the 14 patients achieving a complete remission. Overall, this regimen was well-tolerated. There were adverse events as described in the data that we've shown, but some of these are to be expected treating an older patient population, but there were no treatment-related deaths directly related to the chemotherapy. The most interesting aspect of this data was, however, that analysis we did using PET-CT and MRD. For six patients, who were both MRD-negative and PET-CT-negative, five of the six went onto the abbreviated arm. Even though they finished this truncated regimen, all of them remained in remission to-date. This shows that there might be power in this early-responding group that have a high in-depth- [inaudible 00:03:03]- ... response of this early interim analysis. We look forward to sharing this data at ASCO, and continuing to enroll patients, but we think that this could become a paradigm on how to treat older patients with DLBCL using novel endpoints, while offering a regimen with the same dose intensity that we offer younger patients to improve efficacy.

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