Brexucabtagene autoleucel versus allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in relapsed and refractory mantle cell lymphoma

  • Nora Liebers
  • , Ariane Boumendil
  • , Hervé Finel
  • , Dominic Edelmann
  • , Guido Kobbe
  • , Ben-Niklas Baermann
  • , Yasmina Serroukh
  • , Didier Blaise
  • , Dietrich Wilhelm Beelen
  • , Carlos Solano
  • , Maija Itälä-Remes
  • , Tom van Meerten
  • , Goda Choi
  • , Susanne A C Schmidt
  • , Nicolaus Kröger
  • , Jenny Byrne
  • , Jean-Jacques Tudesq
  • , Anna Ossami Saidy
  • , Ana Nunes
  • , Rubina Siddiqi
  • Elande Baro, Dan Zheng, Ioana Kloos, Peter Dreger, Anna Sureda, Bertram Glass, Sascha Dietrich*
*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Brexucabtagene autoleucel (brexu-cel) and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT) are effective treatments for relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma (r/r MCL), but the optimal choice remains unclear. We conducted an analysis of 64 r/r MCL patients aged ≥50 years treated with brexu-cel in the ZUMA-2 study, matching them 1:1 by propensity score to 64 (out of 272) r/r MCL patients who underwent alloHCT using data from the EBMT registry. Median follow-up time was 36.5 and 34.1 months for the brexu-cel and matched alloHCT cohort, respectively. Brexu-cel patients had a significantly higher overall survival (OS, 81.3% vs 59.2%, HR: 0.39, p=0.004) and lower non-relapse mortality (3.6% vs 21.2%, p=0.015) one year after treatment. Chronic graft-vs-host disease occurred in 26.9% of alloHCT patients within the first year. However, long-term progression-free survival and OS remain comparable. Despite limitations of this non-randomized study, it indicates a superior safety profile for brexu-cel in r/r MCL.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)182–190
Number of pages9
JournalBlood cancer discovery
Volume6
Issue number3
Early online date6-Feb-2025
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5-May-2025

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