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Prognostic Value of Serum Paraprotein Response Kinetics in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma

05-may-2022 | Revista: Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia

Luis-Esteban Tamariz-Amador  1 , Paula Rodríguez-Otero  2 , Ana Jiménez-Ubieto  3 , Laura Rosiñol  4 , Albert Oriol  5 , Rafael Ríos  6 , Anna Sureda  7 , Maria Jesus Blanchard  8 , Miguel Teodoro Hernández  9 , Valentin Cabañas Perianes  10 , Isidro Jarque  11 , Juan Bargay  12 , Mercedes Gironella  13 , Felipe De Arriba  14 , Luis Palomera  15 , Yolanda Gonzalez-Montes  16 , Josep M Martí  17 , Isabel Krsnik  18 , José María Arguiñano  19 , María Esther González  20 , Luis Felipe Casado  21 , Ana Pilar González-Rodriguez  22 , Lucía López-Anglada  4 , Noemi Puig  23 , Maria Teresa Cedena  3 , Bruno Paiva  24 , Maria-Victoria Mateos  23 , Jesús San-Miguel  24 , Juan-José Lahuerta  3 , Joan Bladé  4 , Iñaki F Trocóniz  25


Introduction: Response kinetics is a well-established prognostic marker in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The situation is not clear in multiple myeloma (MM) despite having a biomarker for response monitoring (monoclonal component [MC]).

Materials and methods: We developed a mathematical model to assess the prognostic value of serum MC response kinetics during 6 induction cycles, in 373 NDMM transplanted patients treated in the GEM2012Menos65 clinical trial. The model calculated a "resistance" parameter that reflects the stagnation in the response after an initial descent.

Results: Two patient subgroups were defined based on low and high resistance, that respectively captured sensitive and refractory kinetics, with progression-free survival (PFS) at 5 years of 72% and 59% (HR 0.64, 95% CI 0.44-0.93; P = .02). Resistance significantly correlated with depth of response measured after consolidation (80.9% CR and 68.4% minimal residual disease negativity in patients with sensitive vs. 31% and 20% in those with refractory kinetics). Furthermore, it modulated the impact of reaching CR after consolidation; thus, within CR patients those with refractory kinetics had significantly shorter PFS than those with sensitive kinetics (median 54 months vs. NR; P = .02). Minimal residual disease negativity abrogated this effect. Our study also questions the benefit of rapid responders compared to late responders (5-year PFS 59.7% vs. 76.5%, respectively [P < .002]). Of note, 85% of patients considered as late responders were classified as having sensitive kinetics.

Conclusion: This semi-mechanistic modeling of M-component kinetics could be of great value to identify patients at risk of early treatment failure, who may benefit from early rescue intervention strategies.

CITA DEL ARTÍCULO  Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2022 Sep;22(9):e844-e852.  doi: 10.1016/j.clml.2022.04.024. Epub 2022 May 5.

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