Purpose: Peripheral T cell lymphomas (PTCLs) have an overall poor prognosis. Indeed, registry data in elderly patients show that the median progression-free survival (mPFS) following first- and second-line therapies are only 6.7 and 3.1 months, respectively. The aim of the study is to show the activity of metronomic chemotherapy, a regular administration of low chemotherapeutic drug doses allowing a favourable toxicity profile, on elderly PTCL patients. Methods: We report a series of 17 PTCL patients, treated with the all-oral metronomic schedule DEVEC (prednisolone–etoposide–vinorelbine–cyclophosphamide) in four Italian centres. Patients 5/17 (29.4%) were treatment-naïve (naïve) and 12/17 (70.6%) were relapsed-refractory (RR), respectively. The median age was 83 years (range 71–87) and 71.5 years (range 56–85) for naïve and RR, respectively. In vitro activity of metronomic vinorelbine (VNR), etoposide (ETO) and their concomitant combination on HH, a PTCL cell line, was also assessed. Results: Histology: PTCL-not-otherwise-specified = 12; angioimmunoblastic = 2; NK/T nasal type = 1; adult-type leukaemia lymphoma = 1, transformed Mycosis Fungoides = 1. The overall response rate was 80 and 58% in naïve and RR, respectively; whereas the PFS was 20 in naïve (95% CI 0–43) and 11 months (95% CI 4.2–17.8) in RR. The occurrence of relevant adverse events was 23.5%, which was managed with ETO dose reduction. In vitro experiments showed that both metronomic VNR and ETO caused a significant inhibitory activity on HH cells and a strong synergism when administered concomitantly. Conclusion: All-oral DEVEC showed an encouraging activity and acceptable toxicity. This schedule deserves further studies in elderly PTCL also for assessing combinations with targeted drugs.

All-oral metronomic DEVEC schedule in elderly patients with peripheral T cell lymphoma / Cox, M. C.; Banchi, M.; Pelliccia, S.; Di Napoli, A.; Marcheselli, L.; Patti, C.; Anticoli Borza, P.; Battistini, R.; Di Gregorio, F.; Orlandi, P.; Bocci, G.. - In: CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY AND PHARMACOLOGY. - ISSN 0344-5704. - (2020), pp. 1-6. [10.1007/s00280-020-04172-3]

All-oral metronomic DEVEC schedule in elderly patients with peripheral T cell lymphoma

Pelliccia S.;Di Napoli A.;Patti C.;Di Gregorio F.;
2020

Abstract

Purpose: Peripheral T cell lymphomas (PTCLs) have an overall poor prognosis. Indeed, registry data in elderly patients show that the median progression-free survival (mPFS) following first- and second-line therapies are only 6.7 and 3.1 months, respectively. The aim of the study is to show the activity of metronomic chemotherapy, a regular administration of low chemotherapeutic drug doses allowing a favourable toxicity profile, on elderly PTCL patients. Methods: We report a series of 17 PTCL patients, treated with the all-oral metronomic schedule DEVEC (prednisolone–etoposide–vinorelbine–cyclophosphamide) in four Italian centres. Patients 5/17 (29.4%) were treatment-naïve (naïve) and 12/17 (70.6%) were relapsed-refractory (RR), respectively. The median age was 83 years (range 71–87) and 71.5 years (range 56–85) for naïve and RR, respectively. In vitro activity of metronomic vinorelbine (VNR), etoposide (ETO) and their concomitant combination on HH, a PTCL cell line, was also assessed. Results: Histology: PTCL-not-otherwise-specified = 12; angioimmunoblastic = 2; NK/T nasal type = 1; adult-type leukaemia lymphoma = 1, transformed Mycosis Fungoides = 1. The overall response rate was 80 and 58% in naïve and RR, respectively; whereas the PFS was 20 in naïve (95% CI 0–43) and 11 months (95% CI 4.2–17.8) in RR. The occurrence of relevant adverse events was 23.5%, which was managed with ETO dose reduction. In vitro experiments showed that both metronomic VNR and ETO caused a significant inhibitory activity on HH cells and a strong synergism when administered concomitantly. Conclusion: All-oral DEVEC showed an encouraging activity and acceptable toxicity. This schedule deserves further studies in elderly PTCL also for assessing combinations with targeted drugs.
2020
Cyclophosphamide; Etoposide; Low dose; Metronomic chemotherapy; Peripheral T cell lymphoma; Prednisolone; Prognosis; Vinorelbine
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All-oral metronomic DEVEC schedule in elderly patients with peripheral T cell lymphoma / Cox, M. C.; Banchi, M.; Pelliccia, S.; Di Napoli, A.; Marcheselli, L.; Patti, C.; Anticoli Borza, P.; Battistini, R.; Di Gregorio, F.; Orlandi, P.; Bocci, G.. - In: CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY AND PHARMACOLOGY. - ISSN 0344-5704. - (2020), pp. 1-6. [10.1007/s00280-020-04172-3]
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