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ReviewTherapeutic advances in hematology2023

Survival outcomes in patients with relapsed/refractory or MRD-positive B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with blinatumomab.

Hagop M Kantarjian, Aaron C Logan, Faraz Zaman, Nicola Gökbuget, Ralf C Bargou, Yi Zeng, Gerhard Zugmaier, Franco Locatelli

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Review in Therapeutic advances in hematology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Hagop M KantarjianDepartment of Leukemia, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 428, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1908-3307
Aaron C LoganHelen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Faraz ZamanAmgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, USA.
Nicola GökbugetUniversity Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany.
Ralf C BargouComprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, Uniklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Yi ZengAmgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, USA.
Gerhard ZugmaierAmgen Research GmbH, Munich, Germany.
Franco LocatelliDepartment of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Cell and Gene Therapy, IRCCS Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
Amgen (United States) · USAmgen (Germany) · DEComprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken · DEGoethe University Frankfurt · DEThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · ITUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Blinatumomab has demonstrated significant efficacy in adult and pediatric patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (R/R B-cell ALL) and patients with measurable residual disease (MRD). This review aimed to compare median relapse-free survival (RFS) and median overall survival (OS) in adult and pediatric patients with R/R or MRD-positive B-cell ALL from pivotal studies [MT-103-211 and TOWER for adults with Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-negative R/R B-cell ALL, ALCANTARA for adults with Ph-positive R/R B-cell ALL, MT-103-203 for adults with MRD-positive B-cell ALL, and MT-103-205 for pediatric patients with R/R B-cell ALL], with the median RFS and OS from retrospective analyses, country or ethnicity-specific studies, and studies based on real-world evidence (RWE) identified from a literature search. Adults with Ph-negative R/R B-cell ALL who received blinatumomab as first salvage demonstrated a numerically longer median OS compared with that in patients from pivotal studies (MT-103-211 and TOWER) without additional safety concerns. In pediatric patients with R/R B-cell ALL treated with blinatumomab, the median RFS and OS from retrospective analyses and country/ethnicity-specific studies were comparable with the median RFS and OS from the pivotal study MT-103-205. The median RFS and OS from RWE studies in adults with R/R B-cell ALL were numerically longer than the median RFS and OS from pivotal studies (MT-103-211, TOWER, and ALCANTARA); however, this trend was not observed in pediatric patients with R/R B-cell ALL. In conclusion, this analysis identified first salvage adults with Ph-negative R/R B-cell ALL as particularly well-suited for treatment with blinatumomab since survival outcomes from retrospective analyses reported in this patient subgroup were numerically better compared with those from pivotal studies without additional safety signals.

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blinatumomaboverall survivalrelapsed/refractory B-cell ALLrelapse-free survival

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PMID37822571
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