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New standards of care and novel treatment options for several forms of lymphoma unveiled
Date:12/6/2010

ith combination chemotherapy of three or four agents together, there still is a significant number of patients whose disease progresses after initial induction chemotherapy. For these patients, treatment options include additional courses of the same or different chemotherapy regimens followed by an autologous stem cell transplant. However, for patients whose disease returns after an autologous stem cell transplant, there currently are no approved treatment options.

A phase I study in 45 relapsed or refractory Hodgkin lymphoma patients (NEJM, Nov. 4 issue) found that more than half of the 28 patients treated at doses ranging from 1.2 mg/kg to 2.7 mg/kg of brentuximab vedotin achieved an objective (measurable) response. Brentuximab vedotin is an investigational antibody-drug conjugate that delivers a highly potent chemotherapy agent monomethyl auristatin E directly to Hodgkin lymphoma cells and induces cell death via an anti-CD-30 antibody.

Based on these phase I results, researchers led by the City of Hope National Cancer Center in California and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center enrolled patients into a phase II, single-arm, multicenter study that was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of brentuximab vedotin in patients with relapsed or refractory Hodgkin lymphoma who had already undergone an autologous stem cell transplant.

A total of 102 patients at 26 study centers across the United States received brentuximab vedotin (1.8 mg/kg) every three weeks as a 30-minute outpatient IV infusion for up to 16 cycles of treatment. The primary endpoint of the study was the overall objective response rate. Secondary endpoints included complete response rate, duration of response, progression-free survival, overall survival, and tolerability.

Similar to findings from the phase I study, tumor reduction was demonstrated in 96 patients (94 percent), and objective response rate was 75 percent. These findi
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Contact: Lindsey Love
llove@hematology.org
540-538-9326
American Society of Hematology
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