Augmented FLAMSA-Bu versus FluBu2 reduced-intensity conditioning in patients with active relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia: an EBMT analysis

Rodriguez-Arboli, Eduardo; Labopin, Myriam; Eder, Matthias; Brecht, Arne; Blau, Igor Wolfgang; Huynh, Anne; Forcade, Edouard; Tischer, Johanna; Bethge, Wolfgang; Bondarenko, Sergey; Verbeek, Mareike; Bulabois, Claude Eric; Einsele, Hermann; Stolzel, Friedrich; Savani, Bipin; Spyridonidis, Alexandros; Bazarbachi, Ali; Giebel, Sebastian; Brissot, Eolia; Schmid, Christoph; Nagler, Arnon und Mohty, Mohamad (2022): Augmented FLAMSA-Bu versus FluBu2 reduced-intensity conditioning in patients with active relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia: an EBMT analysis. In: Bone Marrow Transplantation, Bd. 57, Nr. 6: S. 934-941

Abstract

Comparative data of fludarabine, cytarabine and amsacrine (FLAMSA) chemotherapy followed by busulfan (Bu)-based reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) (FLAMSA-Bu) versus RIC regimens are lacking in patients with active relapsed/refractory (R/R) acute myeloid leukemia (AML) at the time of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT). Here, we retrospectively analyzed outcomes after FLAMSA-Bu versus fludarabine/busulfan (FluBu2) conditioning in this patient population. A total of 476 patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria, of whom 257 received FluBu2 and 219 FLAMSA-Bu. Median follow-up was 41 months. Two-year non-relapse mortality (21%), graft-versus-host disease-free, relapse-free survival (24%) and chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) (29%) were not statistically different between cohorts. FLAMSA-Bu was associated with lower 2-year relapse incidence (RI) (38 vs 49% after FluBu2, p = 0.004), and increased leukemia-free survival (LFS) (42 vs 29%, p = 0.001), overall survival (47 vs 39%, p = 0.008) and grades II-IV acute GVHD (36 vs 20%, p = 0.001). In the multivariate analysis, FLAMSA-Bu remained associated with lower RI (HR 0.69, p = 0.042), increased LFS (HR 0.74, p = 0.048) and a higher risk of acute GVHD (HR 2.06, p = 0.005). Notwithstanding the limitations inherent in this analysis, our data indicate that FLAMSA-Bu constitutes a tolerable conditioning strategy, resulting in a long-term benefit in a subset of patients reaching alloSCT with active disease.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• ISSN: 0268-3369
• Sprache: Englisch