AIM: The aim of this study was to analyse the outcomes of patients with large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) treated with chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (CAR-Tx), with a focus on outcomes after CAR T-cell failure, and to define the risk factors for rapid progression and further treatment. METHODS: We analysed 107 patients with LBCL from the Czech Republic and Slovakia who were treated in ≥3rd-line with tisagenlecleucel or axicabtagene ciloleucel between 2019 and 2022. RESULTS: The overall response rate (ORR) was 60%, with a 50% complete response (CR) rate. The median progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were 4.3 and 26.4 months, respectively. Sixty-three patients (59%) were refractory or relapsed after CAR-Tx. Of these patients, 39 received radiotherapy or systemic therapy, with an ORR of 22% (CR 8%). The median follow-up of surviving patients in whom treatment failed was 10.6 months. Several factors predicting further treatment administration and outcomes were present even before CAR-Tx. Risk factors for not receiving further therapy after CAR-Tx failure were high lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) levels before apheresis, extranodal involvement (EN), high ferritin levels before lymphodepletion (LD) and ECOG PS >1 at R/P. The median OS-2 (from R/P after CAR-Tx) was 6.7 months (6-month 57.9%) for treated patients and 0.4 months (6-month 4.2%) for untreated patients (p < 0.001). The median PFS-2 (from R/P after CAR-Tx) was 3.2 months (6-month 28.5%) for treated patients. The risk factors for a shorter PFS-2 (n = 39) included: CRP > limit of the normal range (LNR) before LD, albumin < LNR and ECOG PS > 1 at R/P. All these factors, together with LDH > LNR before LD and EN involvement at R/P, predicted OS-2 for treated patients. CONCLUSION: Our findings allow better stratification of CAR-Tx candidates and stress the need for a proactive approach (earlier restaging, intervention after partial remission achievement).
- Klíčová slova
- CAR T‐cell failure, outcomes of patients after CAR T‐cell therapy failure, relapsed/refractory large B‐cell lymphoma, risk factors for CAR T‐cell therapy failure,
- MeSH
- antigeny CD19 imunologie MeSH
- biologické přípravky terapeutické užití MeSH
- chimerické antigenní receptory imunologie MeSH
- difúzní velkobuněčný B-lymfom * terapie mortalita imunologie MeSH
- doba přežití bez progrese choroby MeSH
- dospělí MeSH
- imunoterapie adoptivní * metody MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- lokální recidiva nádoru MeSH
- mladý dospělý MeSH
- progrese nemoci MeSH
- receptory antigenů T-buněk genetika metabolismus MeSH
- rizikové faktory MeSH
- senioři nad 80 let MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- výsledek terapie MeSH
- Check Tag
- dospělí MeSH
- lidé středního věku MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- mladý dospělý MeSH
- mužské pohlaví MeSH
- senioři nad 80 let MeSH
- senioři MeSH
- ženské pohlaví MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Česká republika MeSH
- Slovenská republika MeSH
- Názvy látek
- antigeny CD19 MeSH
- axicabtagene ciloleucel MeSH Prohlížeč
- biologické přípravky MeSH
- chimerické antigenní receptory MeSH
- receptory antigenů T-buněk MeSH
- tisagenlecleucel MeSH Prohlížeč
