1. Clinical benefit of glasdegib plus low-dose cytarabine in patients with de novo and secondary acute myeloid leukemia: long-term analysis of a phase II randomized trial
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B. Douglas Smith, Mirjana Zeremski, Walter Fiedler, Pau Montesinos, Michael Heuser, Mikkael A. Sekeres, Cristina Papayannidis, Geoffrey Chan, Caroline J. Hoang, Akil Merchant, Ashleigh O'Connell, Jorge E. Cortes, José Antonio Pérez-Simón, Weidong Wendy Ma, Thomas O’Brien, Brian Leber, Projekt DEAL, and Pfizer
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Male ,Secondary acute myeloid leukemia ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Randomization ,Glasdegib ,Antineoplastic Agents ,Gastroenterology ,law.invention ,Randomized controlled trial ,law ,hemic and lymphatic diseases ,Internal medicine ,Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols ,medicine ,Humans ,Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia ,Secondary acute myeloid leukemi ,Adverse effect ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,Acute myeloid leukemia ,Hematology ,business.industry ,Phenylurea Compounds ,Hazard ratio ,Cytarabine ,Myeloid leukemia ,Neoplasms, Second Primary ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Survival Analysis ,Clinical trial ,Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute ,Treatment Outcome ,Original Article ,Benzimidazoles ,Female ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
This analysis from the phase II BRIGHT AML 1003 trial reports the long-term efficacy and safety of glasdegib + low-dose cytarabine (LDAC) in patients with acute myeloid leukemia ineligible for intensive chemotherapy. The multicenter, open-label study randomized (2:1) patients to receive glasdegib + LDAC (de novo, n = 38; secondary acute myeloid leukemia, n = 40) or LDAC alone (de novo, n = 18; secondary acute myeloid leukemia, n = 20). At the time of analysis, 90% of patients had died, with the longest follow-up since randomization 36 months. The combination of glasdegib and LDAC conferred superior overall survival (OS) versus LDAC alone; hazard ratio (HR) 0.495; (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.325–0.752); p = 0.0004; median OS was 8.3 versus 4.3 months. Improvement in OS was consistent across cytogenetic risk groups. In a post-hoc subgroup analysis, a survival trend with glasdegib + LDAC was observed in patients with de novo acute myeloid leukemia (HR 0.720; 95% CI 0.395–1.312; p = 0.14; median OS 6.6 vs 4.3 months) and secondary acute myeloid leukemia (HR 0.287; 95% CI 0.151–0.548; p < 0.0001; median OS 9.1 vs 4.1 months). The incidence of adverse events in the glasdegib + LDAC arm decreased after 90 days’ therapy: 83.7% versus 98.7% during the first 90 days. Glasdegib + LDAC versus LDAC alone continued to demonstrate superior OS in patients with acute myeloid leukemia; the clinical benefit with glasdegib + LDAC was particularly prominent in patients with secondary acute myeloid leukemia. ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01546038., Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This study was funded by Pfizer.
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- 2021