Clinical efficacy and safety of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for mantle cell lymphoma with secondary central nervous system involvement

Christine E. Ryan, Rebecca L. Zon, Robert Redd, David C. Fisher, Roni Shouval, Anita Kumar, Jennifer L. Crombie, Hossein Sadrzadeh, Austin I. Kim, Lakshmi Nayak, Ugonma N. Chukwueke, Caron A. Jacobson, Matthew J. Frigault, M. Lia Palomba, Philippe Armand, Zachary Epstein-Peterson, Reid W. Merryman

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Abstract

Data describing outcomes of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in patients with secondary central nervous system (SCNS) involvement of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) are limited. We identified 10 patients with MCL and SCNS involvement treated with anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy at three US academic centres. Frequent objective responses were observed in the CNS (86%) and systemically (90%), and the 1-year progression-free survival was 47%. Seven patients developed immune-effector-cell-associated-neurotoxicity-syndrome (n = 2 Grade 1, n = 5 Grade 3). Our results suggest that anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy in this setting is feasible and additional data regarding neurotoxicity in this population may be warranted.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)774-780
Number of pages7
JournalBritish Journal of Haematology
Volume203
Issue number5
Early online date16 Aug 2023
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2023
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

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© 2023 British Society for Haematology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Funding

The authors would like to thank the nursing staff and clinical research teams at all the participating centres. C.E.R. gratefully acknowledges support from the Lymphoma Research Foundation Clinical Research Mentoring Program and a CLL Society Young Investigator Award. R.S. acknowledges support from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Core Grant (P30 CA008748) from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute. M.J.F. would also like to thank the Karrie Kapoor Fund for Cellular Immunotherapy. The authors would like to thank the nursing staff and clinical research teams at all the participating centres. C.E.R. gratefully acknowledges support from the Lymphoma Research Foundation Clinical Research Mentoring Program and a CLL Society Young Investigator Award. R.S. acknowledges support from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Core Grant (P30 CA008748) from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute. M.J.F. would also like to thank the Karrie Kapoor Fund for Cellular Immunotherapy.

FundersFunder number
CLL SocietyP30 CA008748
Karrie Kapoor Fund for Cellular Immunotherapy
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute

    Keywords

    • CNS
    • cellular therapies
    • non-Hodgkin lymphoma

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