Efficacy of front-line immunochemotherapy for transplant-ineligible mantle cell lymphoma: A network meta-analysis of...

There is no standard first-line immunochemotherapy regimen for transplant-ineligible patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) currently, and the efficacy of various treatment remains unclear.

We conducted a Bayesian network meta-analysis (NMA) of all eligible randomized controlled trials. Pairwise comparisons and ranking of different first-line treatment options were performed.

Nine studies were included in the NMA, involving a total of 2897 MCL patients. The BR-Ibrutinib+R regimen showed the best progression-free survival (PFS), with a surface under the cumulative ranking curve (SUCRA) of 0.89 and probability of being the best treatment (PbBT) of 69%. The VR-CAP regimen was the most potential intervention to improve overall survival (OS), with a SUCRA of 0.89 and PbBT of 63%. Compared with the R-CHOP regimen, the BR regimen achieved a better PFS (hazard ratio [HR] 0.45 [95% credible interval 0.2-0.96]). The BR-Ibrutinib+R regimen (HR 0.14 [0.02-0.99]), BR+R regimen (HR 0.19 [0.034-0.99]), and BR regimen (HR 0.3 [0.08-1.03]) were superior to CHOP regimen with better PFS. The R-FC regimen (HR 2.27 [1.01-5.21]) or FC regimen (HR 3.17 [1.15-8.71]) was inferior to the VR-CAP regimen with a worse OS.

Our study presents the most promising first-line treatment strategy for transplant-ineligible MCL patients in terms of PFS and OS, which provides innovative treatment strategy for MCL treatment.