Treatment-free remission following frontline nilotinib in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic phase: results from the ENESTfreedom study

Hochhaus, A. and Masszi, T. and Giles, F. J. and Radich, J. P. and Ross, D. M. and Gómez Casares, M. T. and Hellmann, A. and Stentoft, J. and Conneally, E. and García-Gutiérrez, V. and Gattermann, N. and Wiktor-Jedrzejczak, W. and le Coutre, P. D. and Martino, B. and Saussele, S. and Menssen, H. D. and Deng, W. and Krunic, N. and Bedoucha, V. and Saglio, G. (2017) Treatment-free remission following frontline nilotinib in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic phase: results from the ENESTfreedom study. LEUKEMIA, 31 (7). pp. 1525-1531. ISSN 0887-6924

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Abstract

The single-arm, phase 2 ENESTfreedom trial assessed the potential for treatment-free remission (TFR; i.e., the ability to maintain a molecular response after stopping therapy) following frontline nilotinib treatment. Patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic phase with MR4.5 (BCR-ABL10.0032% on the International Scale (BCR-ABL1IS)) and 2 years of frontline nilotinib therapy were enrolled. Patients with sustained deep molecular response during the 1-year nilotinib consolidation phase were eligible to stop treatment and enter the TFR phase. Patients with loss of major molecular response (MMR; BCR-ABL1IS0.1%) during the TFR phase reinitiated nilotinib. In total, 215 patients entered the consolidation phase, of whom 190 entered the TFR phase. The median duration of nilotinib before stopping treatment was 43.5 months. At 48 weeks after stopping nilotinib, 98 patients (51.6%; 95% confidence interval, 44.2-58.9%) remained in MMR or better (primary end point). Of the 86 patients who restarted nilotinib in the treatment reinitiation phase after loss of MMR, 98.8% and 88.4%, respectively, regained MMR and MR4.5 by the data cutoff date. Consistent with prior reports of imatinib-treated patients, musculoskeletal pain-related events were reported in 24.7% of patients in the TFR phase (consolidation phase, 16.3%).Leukemia advance online publication, 17 March 2017; doi:10.1038/leu.2017.63.

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