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LEUKEMIA
Volume 35, Issue 9, Pages 2539-2551Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s41375-021-01179-4
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- National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health [U10CA180821, U10CA180882, U24CA198171, U10CA032291, U10CA041287, U10CA077651, U10CA077658, U10CA180791, U10CA180820, UG1CA233290, U10CA180836, U10CA180850, U10CA180863, U10CA180867, U10CA180888, UG1CA233338]
- Novartis
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The addition of midostaurin to standard chemotherapy in FLT3-mutant AML patients has shown significant benefits in reducing the risk of death and relapse. However, the impact of maintenance therapy on overall outcomes remains inconclusive.
The prospective randomized, placebo-controlled CALGB 10603/RATIFY trial (Alliance) demonstrated a statistically significant overall survival benefit from the addition of midostaurin to standard frontline chemotherapy in a genotypically-defined subgroup of 717 patients with FLT3-mutant acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The risk of death was reduced by 22% on the midostaurin-containing arm. In this post hoc analysis, we analyzed the cumulative incidence of relapse (CIR) on this study and also evaluated the impact of 12 4-week cycles of maintenance therapy. CIR analyses treated relapses and AML deaths as events, deaths from other causes as competing risks, and survivors in remission were censored. CIR was improved on the midostaurin arm (HR = 0.71 (95% CI, 0.54-0.93); p = 0.01), both overall and within European LeukemiaNet 2017 risk classification subsets when post-transplant events were considered in the analysis as events. However, when transplantation was considered as a competing risk, there was overall no significant difference between the risks of relapse on the two randomized arms. Patients still in remission after consolidation with high-dose cytarabine entered the maintenance phase, continuing with either midostaurin or placebo. Analyses were inconclusive in quantifying the impact of the maintenance phase on the overall outcome. In summary, midostaurin reduces the CIR.
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