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ArticleBlood advances2025

Outcomes of bispecific antibody therapy after CAR T-cell failure in relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Evgenii Shumilov, Julia Katharina Scholz, Maximilian Seib, Paolo Mazzeo, Rebecca Wurm-Kuczera, Vladan Vucinic, Udo Holtick, Hristo Boyadzhiev, Thomas Melchardt, Alexander Hölscher and 27 more

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Evgenii ShumilovDepartment of Medicine A, Hematology, Oncology and Pneumology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0178-1729
Julia Katharina ScholzDepartment of Internal Medicine 5, Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.
Maximilian SeibDepartment of Medicine A, Hematology, Oncology and Pneumology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
Paolo MazzeoDepartment of Hematology and Medical Oncology, University Hospital Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6317-0216
Rebecca Wurm-KuczeraDepartment of Hematology, Oncology, and Cancer Immunology, Charité-University Medical Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Vladan VucinicDepartment of Hematology, Hemostaseology, Cellular Therapy and Infectiology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8398-285X
Udo HoltickDepartment I of Internal Medicine, Medical Faculty and University Hospital of Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Hristo BoyadzhievDepartment of Medical Oncology, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Thomas MelchardtThird Medical Department at the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Cancer Center, Salzburg, Austria.
Alexander HölscherDepartment of Hematology, Oncology, and Immunology, University Hospital of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0009-0004-8994-1137
Christian Schultze-FloreyDepartment of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3307-2639
Atef AbdelhafezDepartment of Hematology, Oncology, and Cancer Immunology, Charité-University Medical Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8087-9219
Giuliano Filippini VelazquezDepartment of Hematology, University Hospital Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2884-3432
Anna Ossami SaidyDepartment of Hematology, Oncology, and Tumor Immunology, Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany.
Vadim LesanDepartment of Internal Medicine 1, Oncology, Hematology, Clinical Immunology, and Rheumatology, Saarland University Medical School, Homburg, Germany.
Ulf SchnetzkeDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Hematology and Medical Oncology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany.
Andrea KerkhoffDepartment of Medicine A, Hematology, Oncology and Pneumology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
Ulrike BacherDepartment of Hematology, University Hospital Inselspital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8771-947X
Susanne GhandiliDepartment of Oncology, Hematology, and Bone Marrow Transplantation with Section Pneumology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Enver AydilekDepartment of Hematology and Medical Oncology, University Hospital Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1418-2725
Niklas GebauerDepartment for Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0566-4554
Thomas WeberDepartment of Internal Medicine IV, Haematology and Oncology, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8724-9348
Gerald WulfDepartment of Hematology and Medical Oncology, University Hospital Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Bertram GlassDepartment of Hematology, Oncology, and Tumor Immunology, Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany.
Lorenz ThurnerDepartment of Internal Medicine 1, Oncology, Hematology, Clinical Immunology, and Rheumatology, Saarland University Medical School, Homburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8167-2989
Florian H HeidelDepartment of Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2438-1955
Christoph SchmidDepartment of Hematology, University Hospital Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
Andreas ViardotDepartment of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
Mathias HänelMedical Clinic III, Klinikum Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany.
Sascha DietrichDepartment of Hematology, Oncology, and Immunology, University Hospital of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0648-1832
Thomas PabstDepartment of Medical Oncology, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-6055-5257
Francis AyukDepartment of Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Bastian von TresckowDepartment of Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation, West German Cancer Center and German Cancer Consortium (Deutsches Konsortium für Translationale Krebsforschung Partner Site Essen), Essen University Hospital, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1410-4487
Björn ChapuyDepartment of Hematology, Oncology, and Cancer Immunology, Charité-University Medical Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Christiane PottDepartment of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
Fabian MüllerDepartment of Internal Medicine 5, Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5487-5839
Georg LenzDepartment of Medicine A, Hematology, Oncology and Pneumology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

abstractPatients with large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL) who experience relapsed disease after CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell (CAR-T) therapy have a poor prognosis. Bispecific antibodies (BsAbs) induce complete remissions in ∼35% of these cases. Hypothesizing overlapping LBCL-intrinsic resistance mechanisms as well as common poor prognosis predictors to CAR-T and BsAb therapy, we conducted a multicenter retrospective analysis including 92 patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) LBCL treated with BsAbs after CAR-T failure. Overall response rate (ORR) was 43%, with a progression-free survival (PFS) of 2.8 months. Patients receiving BsAbs during early relapse (≤3 months) achieved a significantly worse outcome (ORR, 29%; PFS, 2.2 months) compared with patients with an intermediate (4-6 months; ORR, 54%; PFS, 3.7 months) or a late relapse (>6 months; ORR, 60%; PFS, 10.5 months). The benefit of later relapse was particularly notable in patients receiving BsAbs as first salvage therapy compared with those receiving a BsAb in subsequent lines (PFS not reached vs 2.7 months; overall survival not reached vs 9.1 months, respectively). In addition to early R/R state before BsAbs, elevated lactate dehydrogenase and higher International Prognostic Index score were significant predictors of poor outcomes to BsAb in multivariate Cox regression analyses. The finding that patients with early relapse after CAR-T respond particularly poorly to BsAb highlights the necessity for alternative treatment options in this high-risk patient cohort.

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Antibodies, BispecificImmunotherapy, AdoptiveLymphoma, Large B-Cell, DiffuseReceptors, Chimeric AntigenAdultAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRecurrenceRetrospective StudiesTreatment OutcomeAntibodies, BispecificReceptors, Chimeric Antigen

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PMCPMC12337189

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