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- Title
Mini- BEAM is effective as a bridge to transplantation in patients with refractory or relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma who have failed to respond to previous lines of salvage chemotherapy but not in patients with salvage-refractory DLBCL.
- Authors
Moore, Sally; Kayani, Irfan; Peggs, Karl; Qian, Wendi; Lowry, Lisa; Thomson, Kirsty; Linch, David C.; Ardeshna, Kirit
- Abstract
Patients with relapsed or refractory lymphoma can be cured with stem cell transplantation if they are shown to have disease that is responsive to salvage chemotherapy. Patients who fail to respond to first-line salvage chemotherapy tend to do very poorly. Here we report on 39 such patients who received mini- BEAM (carmustine, etoposide, cytarabine, melphalan) chemotherapy as second or subsequent-line salvage chemotherapy. Fifty-six percent of these patients had primary refractory disease and a further 28% had responses to first-line therapy that lasted <12 months. Seventy-two percent had progressive disease following the salvage chemotherapy administered immediately prior to mini- BEAM and the remaining 28% had stable disease. Overall there was a 38% response to mini- BEAM (complete response = 28%, partial response = 10%). Patients with Hodgkin lymphoma ( HL) had a higher response rate compared to those with diffuse large B cell lymphoma ( DLBCL) (63% vs. 20%). Seventy-four percent of HL patients were able to proceed to transplantation compared with 30% of patients with DLBCL. Mini- BEAM is a very effective bridge to transplantation in very poor risk patients with HL who have failed to respond to first-line salvage chemotherapy. Its efficacy in non- Hodgkin lymphoma is more modest.
- Subjects
DRUG therapy; TRANSPLANTATION immunology; TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; HODGKIN'S disease; PLANT diseases; LYMPHOMAS; B cells
- Publication
British Journal of Haematology, 2012, Vol 157, Issue 5, p543
- ISSN
0007-1048
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2141.2012.09096.x