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Background: Follicular lymphoma is an indolent disease with a continuous relapsing pattern and typically requires multiple lines of therapy. Novel therapies such as tisagenlecleucel are being investigated to improve outcomes. Primary analysis of the single-arm, multicenter, Phase II ELARA trial in r/r FL demonstrated that tisagenlecleucel resulted in high overall (ORR) and complete response rates (CRR), and prolonged progression-free survival (PFS) at a median follow-up of 11 months (mo). Here, we report updated efficacy results from the overall population at a median follow-up of 17 mo, and a subgroup analysis of pts with high-risk disease from the ELARA trial (NCT03568461). Methods: Eligible adult pts had histologically confirmed r/r FL (grades 1-3A) after ≥2 lines of therapy or had relapsed after autologous stem cell transplant. Bridging therapy was allowed and was followed by disease evaluation before tisagenlecleucel infusion. Pts received tisagenlecleucel (0.6-6×10 8 CAR+ viable T cells) after lymphodepleting chemotherapy (fludarabine [25 mg/m 2] + cyclophosphamide [250 mg/m 2] QD for 3 d or bendamustine [90 mg/m 2] QD for 2 d). Endpoints included ORR, CRR, PFS, and duration of response (DOR). Descriptive efficacy subanalyses were performed for 9 high-risk subgroups, including prior hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), ≥5 prior lines of therapy, progression of disease within 24 mo from first immunochemotherapy (POD24), double-refractory disease, high Follicular Lymphoma International Prognostic Index (FLIPI) at study entry, high lactate dehydrogenase at baseline, high C-reactive protein (CRP) prior to infusion, radiological bulky disease (by GELF criteria), and high total metabolic tumor volume (TMTV; >510 cm 3) at baseline (median 155.32 cm 3; range 0.1-2470.4 cm 3). Descriptive subgroup analysis was supported by multivariate analysis to identify factors predictive of worse outcomes. Results: As of March 29, 2021, 97 pts received tisagenlecleucel and 94 were evaluable for primary efficacy analysis (median follow-up 17 mo). High and durable responses were seen in the overall ELARA population (ORR 86.2%, CRR 69.1%, 9-mo DOR 76.0%, and 12-mo PFS 67.0%). In CR pts at 9 mo, PFS was 85.5% and estimated probability of remaining in response was 86.5%. Safety reflected known tisagenlecleucel profile; 48% of pts had CRS (majority were grade 1/2) and 11.3% had neurological events (3% grade ≥3). In the subgroup analysis, pts were stratified into risk groups. Efficacy (ORR, CRR) and durability of response were well maintained in all high-risk subgroups, except for POD24 (n=35), high TMTV (n=20), and ≥5 prior lines of therapy (n=27). Compared with corresponding low-risk subgroups, there was a numerical reduction in CRR for high-risk subgroups (POD24 59.0% vs 87.9%; high TMTV 40.0% vs 76.4%; ≥5 prior lines of therapy 59.3% vs 73.1%) (Figure). A reduction in 12-mo PFS was also identified for pts in these subgroups: POD24 (60.8% vs 77.9%), high baseline TMTV (54.5% vs 68.5%), and ≥5 prior lines of therapy (59.6% vs 69.7%). Evaluating the disease characteristics of the high TMTV subgroup compared with low TMTV, high TMTV was associated with a higher incidence of bulky disease (58.3% vs 90.0%), high FLIPI (54.2% vs 85.0%), and high CRP (45.8% vs 70.0%). In the multivariate analysis of high-risk factors, only POD24 (hazard ratio [HR] 2.34; 95% CI, 1.02- 5.34) and high TMTV (HR 2.53; 95% CI, 1.14-5.65) were associated with shorter PFS. For pts with both POD24 and high TMTV (n=12), the CRR was 16.7% with a 12-mo PFS of 36.0%. These analyses of high-risk subgroups are exploratory in nature and should be validated in a larger study cohort. Conclusions : With 17-mo median follow-up, tisagenlecleucel produced high ORR and CRR and was associated with durable response and promising 12-mo PFS in pts with r/r FL and 2+ prior lines of therapy. Safety was consistent with known tisagenlecleucel profile. POD24 and high TMTV were independently associated with PFS. These results suggest that tisagenlecleucel can induce high rates of durable response, including most pts in the high-risk disease subgroups, who have poor prognosis with current non-CAR-T cell therapies. Figure 1 Figure 1. Disclosures Thieblemont: Bristol Myers Squibb/Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses ; Gilead Sciences: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses ; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses ; Janssen: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Roche: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses , Research Funding; Kyte: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses ; Takeda: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Incyte: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Abbvie: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses ; Cellectis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses ; Hospira: Research Funding; Bayer: Honoraria; Amgen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses . Dickinson: Amgen: Honoraria; Gilead Sciences: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; MSD: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria; Bristol-Myers Squibb: Consultancy, Honoraria; Takeda: Research Funding; Celgene: Research Funding; Roche: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other: travel, accommodation, expenses, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau. Martinez-Lopez: Incyte: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; BMS: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Novartis: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Roche: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Astellas: Research Funding, Speakers Bureau. Kolstad: Nordic Nanovector: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding. Popplewell: Pfizer: Other: Travel; Novartis: Other: Travel; Hoffman La Roche: Other: Food. Chavez: AstraZeneca: Research Funding; Novartis: Consultancy; MorphoSys: Speakers Bureau; Karyopharm Therapeutics: Consultancy; Adaptive: Research Funding; Kite/Gilead: Consultancy; Abbvie: Consultancy; Merck: Research Funding; BeiGene: Speakers Bureau; ADC Therapeutics: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Bristol Myers Squibb: Speakers Bureau; Epizyme: Speakers Bureau. Bachy: Roche: Consultancy; Takeda: Consultancy; Kite, a Gilead Company: Honoraria; Novartis: Honoraria; Daiishi: Research Funding; Incyte: Consultancy. Kato: Kyowa Kirin: Honoraria, Research Funding; Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Eisai: Consultancy, Research Funding; Dainippon-Sumitomo: Honoraria; Daiichi Sankyo: Consultancy, Research Funding; Chugai: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Bristol-Myers Squibb: Honoraria, Research Funding; AstraZeneca: Consultancy; Abbvie: Consultancy, Research Funding; MSD: Honoraria; Mundi: Honoraria; Novartis: Consultancy, Research Funding; Ono: Honoraria, Research Funding. Harigae: Novartis Pharma: Honoraria, Research Funding; Chugai Pharma: Honoraria; Janssen Pharma: Honoraria; Ono pharma: Honoraria, Other: Subsidies or Donations; Astellas Pharma: Other: Subsidies or Donations; Kyowakirin: Other: Subsidies or Donations; Bristol Myers Squibb: Honoraria. Kersten: Kite/Gilead: Honoraria, Research Funding; Novartis: Honoraria; Miltenyi Biotech: Honoraria; BMS/Celgene: Honoraria, Research Funding; Roche: Honoraria; Takeda: Honoraria. Andreadis: GenMAB: Research Funding; Karyopharm: Honoraria; Incyte: Honoraria; BMS/Celgene: Research Funding; Epizyme: Honoraria; Crispr Therapeutics: Research Funding; Atara: Consultancy, Honoraria; Novartis: Research Funding; Kite: Honoraria; Merck: Research Funding; Roche: Current equity holder in publicly-traded company, Ended employment in the past 24 months; TG Therapeutics: Honoraria. Riedell: Kite/Gilead: Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; MorphoSys: Research Funding; BeiGene: Consultancy; Takeda: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Celgene/BMS: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Janssen: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Tessa Therapeutics: Research Funding; Bayer: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Xencor: Research Funding; Karyopharm: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Calibr: Research Funding. Pérez-Simón: Novartis: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau. Chen: Mesolbast: Honoraria; Morphosys: Honoraria. Nastoupil: MorphoSys: Honoraria; Bayer: Honoraria; Genentech: Honoraria, Research Funding; Takeda: Honoraria, Other: DSMC, Research Funding; IGM Biosciences: Research Funding; Denovo Pharma: Other: DSMC; Bristol Myers Squibb/Celgene: Honoraria, Research Funding; Caribou Biosciences: Research Funding; Novartis: Honoraria, Research Funding; Gilead/Kite: Honoraria, Research Funding; TG Therapeutics: Honoraria, Research Funding; Janssen: Honoraria, Research Funding; ADC Therapeutics: Honoraria; Epizyme: Honoraria, Research Funding; Pfizer: Honoraria, Research Funding. Von Tresckow: Pentixafarm: Consultancy, Honoraria; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other: Congress and travel support, Research Funding; MSD: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other: Congress and travel support, Research Funding; Kite-Gilead: Consultancy, Honoraria; BMS-Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other: Congress and travel support; AstraZeneca: Honoraria, Other: Congress and travel support; Amgen: Consultancy, Honoraria; AbbVie: Other: Congress and travel support; Pfizer: Consultancy, Honoraria; Roche: Consultancy, Honoraria; Takeda: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other, Research Funding. Ferreri: Gilead, Novartis, Juno, PletixaPharm, Roche, Incyte: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; BMS, Beigene, Pharmacyclics, Hutchison Medipharma, Amgen, Genmab, ADC Therapeutics, Gilead, Novartis, Pfizer: Research Funding. Teshima: Fuji pharma CO.,Ltd: Research Funding; Astellas Pharma Inc.: Research Funding; TEIJIN PHARMA Limited: Research Funding; CHUGAI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.: Research Funding; Pfizer Inc.: Honoraria; Merck Sharp & Dohme: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Kyowa Kirin Co.,Ltd.: Honoraria, Research Funding; Takeda Pharmaceutical Company: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Novartis International AG: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other, Research Funding; Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K.: Other; Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd.: Research Funding; Bristol Myers Squibb: Honoraria; Sanofi S.A.: Research Funding; Gentium/Jazz Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy. Patten: ASTRA ZENECA: Honoraria; ABBVIE: Honoraria; NOVARTIS: Honoraria; GILEAD SCIENCES: Honoraria, Research Funding; ROCHE: Research Funding; JANSSEN: Honoraria. McGuirk: Kite/ Gilead: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other: travel accommodations, expense, Kite a Gilead company, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Novartis: Research Funding; Gamida Cell: Research Funding; Fresenius Biotech: Research Funding; Novartis: Research Funding; EcoR1 Capital: Consultancy; Magenta Therapeutics: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Allovir: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Juno Therapeutics: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Astelllas Pharma: Research Funding; Bellicum Pharmaceuticals: Research Funding; Pluristem Therapeutics: Research Funding. Petzer: AppVie: Honoraria; Astra Zeneca: Honoraria; Novartis: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Celgene: Honoraria; Amgen: Honoraria; Janssen: Honoraria; Sanofi: Honoraria; Takeda: Honoraria; Sandoz: Honoraria. Viardot: University Hospital of Ulm: Current Employment; F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Novartis: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Amgen: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Bristol-Myers Squibb: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Kite/Gilead: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees. Zinzani: JANSSEN-CILAG: Other: Advisory board, Speakers Bureau; NOVARTIS: Consultancy, Other, Speakers Bureau; EUSAPHARMA: Consultancy, Other, Speakers Bureau; SANDOZ: Other: Advisory board; MSD: Consultancy, Other: Advisory board, Speakers Bureau; TAKEDA: Other: Advisory board, Speakers Bureau; BMS: Other: Advisory board, Speakers Bureau; TG Therapeutics: Other: Advisory board, Speakers Bureau; ROCHE: Other, Speakers Bureau; SERVIER: Other: Advisory board, Speakers Bureau; KYOWA KIRIN: Other, Speakers Bureau; Incyte: Other, Speakers Bureau; CELLTRION: Other: Advisory board, Speakers Bureau; ADC Therap.: Other; GILEAD: Other: Advisory board, Speakers Bureau; Beigene: Other, Speakers Bureau; VERASTEM: Consultancy, Other: Advisory board, Speakers Bureau. Malladi: Gilead Science: Consultancy; Gilead: Honoraria, Other: Travel support. Lobetti Bodoni: Spouse: Amgen: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Spouse: Janssen: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Spouse: Celgene: Honoraria; Spouse: Harlcok Healthcare: Current holder of individual stocks in a privately-held company; Spouse: Takeda: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Spouse: Sanofi: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Spouse: NHS: Ended employment in the past 24 months; Spouse: F. Hoffmann-La Roche: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company; Gilead: Other: Travel sponsorship in June 2019; Novartis: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Masood: Novartis: Current Employment, Current holder of stock options in a privately-held company. Schuster: Genentech/Roche: Consultancy, Research Funding; Tessa Theraputics: Consultancy; Loxo Oncology: Consultancy; BeiGene: Consultancy; Juno Theraputics: Consultancy, Research Funding; Alimera Sciences: Consultancy; Merck: Research Funding; Incyte: Research Funding; Acerta Pharma/AstraZeneca: Consultancy; Abbvie: Consultancy, Research Funding; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Patents & Royalties, Research Funding; TG Theraputics: Research Funding; Pharmacyclics: Research Funding; Adaptive Biotechnologies: Research Funding; Nordic Nanovector: Consultancy; Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding. Fowler: Bristol Myers Squibb, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, TG Therapeutics and Novartis: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; BostonGene, Corp: Current Employment, Current holder of stock options in a privately-held company. Dreyling: Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Astra Zeneca: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; BeiGene: Consultancy; Celgene: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Genmab: Consultancy; Amgen: Speakers Bureau; Incyte: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Gilead/Kite: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Novartis: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Roche: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Abbvie: Research Funding.

Background: In the ELARA (E2202) trial (NCT03568461), tisagenlecleucel (tisa-cel) demonstrated high response rates in patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma (r/r FL), including those with high-risk disease, with an overall response rate (ORR) of 86% and complete response rate (CRR) of 66%. As ELARA did not include a comparator arm, an adjusted indirect treatment comparison (ITC) using patient-level data from a global retrospective cohort study was conducted. This study aimed to provide comparative, contextual evidence to the efficacy outcomes of tisa-cel from ELARA relative to standard of care (SOC) in routine practice. Methods: ELARA is an ongoing, single-arm, global, multicenter, phase II trial which evaluates the efficacy and safety of tisa-cel in adult patients with r/r FL. As of March 29, 2021, 98 patients were enrolled with a median follow-up of 15 months. SOC data were obtained from ReCORD-FL, a global retrospective cohort study of clinical outcomes in patients with r/r FL meeting the ELARA eligibility criteria who were treated per routine practice at 10 academic centers across North America and Europe; 7 ReCORD-FL sites are also participating in ELARA, but no patients are enrolled in both studies. In ReCORD-FL, with a data cutoff date of December 31, 2020, a total of 187 patients with ≥2 lines of previous treatment were identified for inclusion, with a median follow-up from third-line of 57 months. A complete-case comparison analysis was performed for 97 ELARA apheresed patients and 143 ReCORD-FL patients with complete data on all baseline variables and prognostic factors used for adjustment. For the comparative analysis, one line of therapy (LoT) per patient was selected using a propensity score model to identify the LoT which had the highest chance of being enrolled in ELARA conditional on baseline characteristics and prognostic factors available at the start of the LoT (i.e., the selected LoT was the one with the highest propensity score to be in ELARA). After selection of LoT, an adjusted ITC was performed to assess the effect of tisa-cel versus SOC by measuring CRR, ORR, progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), and time to next treatment (TTNT). A subgroup analysis of SOC patients with ≥1 eligible LoT initiated from 2014 on (coinciding with the introduction of the Lugano response criteria as well as regulatory approval of idelalisib) was performed for all endpoints. Results: Baseline characteristics for the tisa-cel and SOC cohorts are described in Table 1; after weighting, baseline variables, including number of previous lines of systemic therapy (median: 4 lines) were well balanced between the tisa-cel and SOC cohorts. Treatment regimens observed for ReCORD-FL patients at LoT selection were: anti-CD20 antibody plus alkylator (31.5% of patients), anti-CD20 antibody without alkylator (25.9%), alkylator without anti-CD20 antibody (17.5%), and regimens other than anti-CD20 antibody and alkylator (25.2%). After LoT selection and adjusting for differences in baseline variables, tisa-cel was associated with improvement over SOC in CRR (69.1% vs. 37.3%), ORR (85.6% vs. 63.6%), as well as PFS, TTNT and OS (Table 2, Figures 1-2), with a numerically higher 6-month PFS rate vs. SOC (85.3% vs. 66.5%), as well as higher 24-month OS rate (87.8% vs. 64.8%). Further, there was an estimated 80% reduction in death risk in favor of tisa-cel over SOC, a 40% reduction in risk of progression in favor of tisa-cel over SOC and a 69% reduction in risk of death or requiring a new anticancer therapy (Table 1). In the sub-analysis of SOC patients with lines of therapy initiated in or after 2014, the superiority of tisa-cel over SOC was confirmed in all the efficacy outcomes (CRR: 69.1% vs. 30.5%; ORR: 85.6% vs. 58.8%; hazard ratios substantially < 1 for OS, PFS, TTNT). Conclusion: The ITC results suggest that tisa-cel has superior efficacy over SOC in r/r FL for all evaluated endpoints. A key limitation of this study is that response assessment criteria and schedule was more heterogeneous in ReCORD-FL than in ELARA. However, the sub-analysis on SOC patients assessed with a LoT selected in 2014 or later (when more patients could have been assessed using the Lugano response criteria) showed similar favorability for tisa-cel over SOC in all the efficacy outcomes. Moreover, outcome parameters independent of response criteria, namely OS and TTNT, were also significantly better for tisa-cel vs. SOC. Figure 1 Figure 1. Disclosures Salles: Abbvie, Epizyme, Morphosys, Regeneron: Consultancy, Honoraria; Bayer: Honoraria; Beigene, BMS/Celgene, Debiopharm, Genentech/Roche, Genmab, Incyte, Ipsen, anssen, Novartis. Kite/Gilead, Loxo, Miltneiy, Rapt, TAKEDA, Velosbio, Allogene: Consultancy. Schuster: Acerta Pharma/AstraZeneca: Consultancy; Alimera Sciences: Consultancy; BeiGene: Consultancy; Juno Theraputics: Consultancy, Research Funding; Loxo Oncology: Consultancy; Tessa Theraputics: Consultancy; Genentech/Roche: Consultancy, Research Funding; Merck: Research Funding; Pharmacyclics: Research Funding; Adaptive Biotechnologies: Research Funding; Incyte: Research Funding; TG Theraputics: Research Funding; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Patents & Royalties, Research Funding; Abbvie: Consultancy, Research Funding; Nordic Nanovector: Consultancy; Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding. Dreyling: BeiGene: Consultancy; Celgene: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Amgen: Speakers Bureau; Genmab: Consultancy; Gilead/Kite: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Incyte: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Novartis: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Roche: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Abbvie: Research Funding; Astra Zeneca: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau. Kuruvilla: AbbVie: Honoraria; Amgen: Honoraria; AstraZeneca: Honoraria, Research Funding; Antengene: Honoraria; Roche: Honoraria, Research Funding; Incyte: Honoraria; BMS: Honoraria; Merck: Honoraria; Janssen: Honoraria, Research Funding; Karyopharm: Honoraria, Other: Data and Safety Monitoring Board; Novartis: Honoraria; Medison Ventures: Honoraria; Pfizer: Honoraria; Gilead: Honoraria; Seattle Genetics: Honoraria; TG Therapeutics: Honoraria. Patten: ROCHE: Research Funding; GILEAD SCIENCES: Honoraria, Research Funding; ABBVIE: Honoraria; NOVARTIS: Honoraria; ASTRA ZENECA: Honoraria; JANSSEN: Honoraria. Von Tresckow: AbbVie: Other: Congress and travel support; Amgen: Consultancy, Honoraria; AstraZeneca: Honoraria, Other: Congress and travel support; BMS-Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other: Congress and travel support; Kite-Gilead: Consultancy, Honoraria; MSD: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other: Congress and travel support, Research Funding; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other: Congress and travel support, Research Funding; Pentixafarm: Consultancy, Honoraria; Pfizer: Consultancy, Honoraria; Roche: Consultancy, Honoraria; Takeda: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other, Research Funding. Smith: Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease: Other: Study investigator; Celgene, Genetech, AbbVie: Consultancy. Davis: Novartis, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Eisai, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca: Research Funding. Anjos: Novartis: Current Employment. Chu: Novartis: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Zhang: Novartis: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Lobetti Bodoni: Spouse: Harlcok Healthcare: Current holder of individual stocks in a privately-held company; Spouse: Takeda: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Spouse: Celgene: Honoraria; Spouse: Janssen: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Spouse: Amgen: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Spouse: Sanofi: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Spouse: NHS: Ended employment in the past 24 months; Spouse: F. Hoffmann-La Roche: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company; Gilead: Other: Travel sponsorship in June 2019; Novartis: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Thieblemont: Kyte: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses ; Gilead Sciences: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses ; Janssen: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Roche: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses , Research Funding; Takeda: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses ; Bristol Myers Squibb/Celgene: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses ; Incyte: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Abbvie: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses ; Cellectis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses ; Hospira: Research Funding; Bayer: Honoraria; Amgen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Travel, Accommodations, Expenses . Fowler: BostonGene, Corp: Current Employment, Current holder of stock options in a privately-held company; Bristol Myers Squibb, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, TG Therapeutics and Novartis: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding. Dickinson: Janssen: Consultancy, Honoraria; Takeda: Research Funding; Bristol-Myers Squibb: Consultancy, Honoraria; MSD: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Gilead Sciences: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Amgen: Honoraria; Celgene: Research Funding; Roche: Consultancy, Honoraria, Other: travel, accommodation, expenses, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau. Martinez-Lopez: Novartis: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; BMS: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Incyte: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Roche: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Astellas: Research Funding, Speakers Bureau. Wang: Eli Lilly: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Incyte: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Genentech: Research Funding; InnoCare: Research Funding; LOXO Oncology: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Research Funding; Novartis: Research Funding; MorphoSys: Research Funding; TG Therapeutics: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees. Link: Genentech/Roche: Consultancy, Research Funding; MEI: Consultancy; Novartis, Jannsen: Research Funding.

Introduction: In the single-arm phase 2 ELARA trial (NCT03568461), tisagenlecleucel demonstrated efficacy and favorable safety profile in patients with relapsed/refractory (r/r) follicular lymphoma (FL) after ≥ 2 lines of prior therapy, including in high-risk sub-populations (Schuster, et al. ASCO 2021). To contextualize these results, we performed a retrospective non-interventional study to compare the efficacy of tisagenlecleucel seen in the single-arm ELARA trial with the standard-of-care (SoC) using individual patient-level data from the US Flatiron Health Research Database (FHRD). FHRD is a database derived from electronic health records from over 280 cancer clinics. The objective was to assess the effect of prescribing tisagenlecleucel vs SoC in patients who participated in ELARA. Methods: Individual patient-level data from FHRD were used to create an external control arm to carry out an indirect comparison with the ELARA trial. Eligible inclusion and exclusion criteria from ELARA were applied to the external control arm. A single eligible line was selected using propensity scores when patients were qualified at multiple lines. Key prognostic factors including age, race, gender, number of prior treatment lines, group stage at initial FL diagnosis, number of months between initial FL diagnosis and indication of index treatment, double refractoriness, and disease progression within 24 months were included in a propensity score model to reduce confounding due to systematic differences in ELARA patients from FHRD patients at baseline for the selected line. Weighting by odds of receiving tisagenlecleucel was used to estimate the average treatment effect on progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), time to next treatment (TTNT), overall response rate (ORR), and complete response rate (CRR). The rates and difference in rates were calculated for CRR and ORR. Kaplan-Meier (KM) analysis and Cox proportional hazards model were used to analyze all time-to-event endpoints. 95% confidence interval (CI) was calculated using bootstrapping. Data from the first 24 months after enrollment in ELARA or after treatment in FHRD were used for the follow-up period in the time to event endpoints, as few patients in ELARA trial had > 24 month data (Figure). Results were reported based on the post-weighting sample by incorporating a weight factor in the above analyses. A series of sensitivity analyses were conducted to assess the robustness of the primary analysis. Results: As of Mar 29, 2021, 98 patients were enrolled in the ELARA trial, of which 97 were included in this indirect comparison (median follow-up, 15 months). In the FHRD cohort (data cut-off, Jun 30, 2020), 98 patients with ≥ 3 treatment lines who met the ELARA eligibility were included (median follow-up, 14 months in the post-weighted sample) (Table 1). In the ELARA vs FHRD cohorts, after applying weighting by odds, the ORR was 85.6% vs 58.1%, and the CRR was 69.1% vs 17.7%. The difference in CRR (51.4%; 95% CI: 21.2, 68.8) was clinically meaningful (Table 2). The median TTNT or death was not reached in the ELARA cohort and was 19.0 months in the FHRD cohort after weighting (HR = 0.34 [95% CI: 0.15, 0.78]) (Table 2). The median OS was not reached for both ELARA and FHRD cohorts in the first 24-month period. KM estimate of OS at 12 months was 96.6% in the ELARA cohort and 84.5% in the FHRD cohort, post weighting. The estimated 59% risk reduction was in favor of tisagenlecleucel over SoC (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.41 [95% CI: 0.11, 1.47]) (Table 2). The median PFS was not reached in the ELARA cohort and was 9.9 months in the FHRD cohort, after weighting. In the ELARA vs FHRD cohorts, the 12-month PFS was 73.2% vs 41.8%, with a HR of 0.45 indicating a 55% reduction in the risk of progression and death with tisagenlecleucel vs SoC. The median PFS considering new anti-cancer therapy as an event was not reached for ELARA and was 9.9 months for FHRD; the estimated probability of being progression-free at 12 months was 70.5% in the ELARA cohort and 39.4% in the FHRD cohort (Table 2). Sensitivity analyses results were consistent with that of primary analysis. Conclusion: In the weighted analyses with adjustment for baseline prognostic factors, there was a consistent trend towards greater CRR, TTNT, OS and PFS in favor of tisagenlecleucel vs SoC in patients with r/r FL. These results support the clinically meaningful treatment benefit of tisagenlecleucel observed in the ELARA trial. Figure 1 Figure 1. Disclosures Hao: Novartis: Current Employment. Hsu: Novartis: Consultancy. Parzynski: Novartis: Consultancy. Lobetti Bodoni: Spouse: Amgen: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Spouse: Janssen: Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Speakers Bureau; Spouse: Celgene: Honoraria; Spouse: Harlcok Healthcare: Current holder of individual stocks in a privately-held company; Spouse: Takeda: Consultancy, Honoraria, Speakers Bureau; Spouse: NHS: Ended employment in the past 24 months; Spouse: Sanofi: Consultancy, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Spouse: F. Hoffmann-La Roche: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company; Gilead: Other: Travel sponsorship in June 2019; Novartis: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Degtyarev: Novartis: Current Employment, Current equity holder in publicly-traded company. Hampson: Novartis: Current Employment. Masood: Novartis: Current Employment, Current holder of stock options in a privately-held company. Wu: Novartis: Consultancy. OffLabel Disclosure: Tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah) an autologous CD19-directed CAR-T-cell therapy, has been approved for children and young adults with relapsed/refractory (r/r) acute lymphoblastic leukemia and, adults with r/r diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Some evidences suggest that telomere restriction fragment length (TRF-L) is an effective indicator of histopathogenesis in B-cell tumors. As histopathogenesis is relevant for B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) prognosis, TRF-L was assessed by Southern blot in 201 patients and compared to variable immunoglobulin heave chain gene mutational status (VH-MS) and to other known prognostic features. Overall survival (OS), time to first treatment (TTFT) and progression-free survival (PFS) were evaluated. Our results indicate the following: (1) TRF-L is heterogeneous among B-CLL patients (median 6014 bp, range 1465–16 762); (2) TRF-L correlates to VH-MS (r2=0.1994, P