Polatuzumab Vedotin in Previously Untreated Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma

Hervé Tilly1, Franck Morschhauser1, Laurie H Sehn1

  • 1From the Department of Hematology and INSERM Unité 1245, Centre Henri-Becquerel and University of Rouen, Rouen (H.T.), Université de Lille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Lille, ULR 7365 - GRITA - Groupe de Recherche sur les Formes Injectables et les Technologies Associées, Lille (F.M.), CHU de Montpellier, Montpellier (C.H.), the Department of Hematology, Institut Universitaire du Cancer, Toulouse-Oncopole, Toulouse (L.O.), and the Department of Hematology, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire - Besançon, Besançon (A.C.) - all in France; the Centre for Lymphoid Cancer at BC Cancer and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (L.H.S.), the Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto (M.C.C.), and F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Mississauga, ON (M.Y.) - all in Canada; the Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester, Rochester (J.W.F.), and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York (M.M., G.S.) - both in New York; the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and the General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic (M.T.); the Willamette Valley Cancer Institute and Research Center, the US Oncology Network, Eugene, OR (J.P.S.); Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers, Aurora, CO (J.M.B.); Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Montvale, NJ (M.M.); the Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Kindai University, Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama City (S.R.), and the National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo (K.I.) - both in Japan; Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis (N.M.-S.); the Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Krakow, Poland (W.J.); Peking University Cancer Hospital, Beijing (Y.S.); the 3rd Medical Department, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg Cancer Research Institute-Center for Clinical Cancer and Immunology Trials, and Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria (R.G.); the Feofaniya Clinical Hospital, Kyiv, Ukraine (L.M.); Hospital San Pedro de Alcántara, Cáceres (J.M.B.-B.), and the Department of Hematology, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona (P.A.) - both in Spain; the Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Fondazione G. Pascale, IRCCS, Naples, Italy (A.P.); the Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Research Institute of Medical Science, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, South Korea (H.-J.S.); Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (G.H.); Hospital Erasto Gaertner, Curitiba, Brazil (E.M.); Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan (J.-P.G.); Genentech, South San Francisco, CA (J.H., Y.J., C.L.); and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (C.R.F.).

Summary

Polatuzumab vedotin combined with R-CHOP (pola-R-CHP) improved progression-free survival in previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients compared to standard R-CHOP. Overall survival and safety profiles were similar between the two treatments.

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