Incidence and management of CAR-T neurotoxicity in patients with multiple myeloma treated with ciltacabtagene autoleucel in CARTITUDE studies. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies are highly effective for multiple myeloma (MM) but their impressive efficacy is associated with treatment-related neurotoxicities in some patients. In CARTITUDE-1, 5% of patients with MM reported movement and neurocognitive treatment-emergent adverse events (MNTs) with ciltacabtagene autoleucel (cilta-cel), a B-cell maturation antigen-targeted CAR T-cell therapy. We assessed the associated factors for MNTs in CARTITUDE-1. Based on common features, patients who experienced MNTs were characterized by the presence of a combination of at least two variables: high tumor burden, grade ≥2 cytokine release syndrome (CRS) or any grade immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) after cilta-cel infusion, and high CAR T-cell expansion/persistence. Strategies were implemented across the cilta-cel development program to monitor and manage patients with MNTs, including enhanced bridging therapy to reduce baseline tumor burden, early aggressive treatment of CRS and ICANS, handwriting assessments for early symptom detection, and extended monitoring/reporting time for neurotoxicity beyond 100 days post-infusion. After successful implementation of these strategies, the incidence of MNTs was reduced from 5% to <1% across the cilta-cel program, supporting its favorable benefit-risk profile for treatment of MM.

authors

  • Cohen, Adam D
  • Parekh, Samir
  • Santomasso, Bianca
  • Gállego Pérez-Larraya, Jaime
  • van de Donk, Niels W C J
  • Arnulf, Bertrand
  • Mateos, Maria-Victoria
  • Lendvai, Nikoletta
  • Jackson, Carolyn C
  • De Braganca, Kevin C
  • Schecter, Jordan M
  • Marquez, Loreta
  • Lee, Erin
  • Cornax, Ingrid
  • Zudaire, Enrique
  • Li, Claire
  • Olyslager, Yunsi
  • Madduri, Deepu
  • Varsos, Helen
  • Pacaud, Lida
  • Akram, Muhammad
  • Geng, Dong
  • Jakubowiak, Andrzej
  • Einsele, Hermann
  • Jagannath, Sundar

publication date

  • February 24, 2022

Research

keywords

  • Multiple Myeloma
  • Neurotoxicity Syndromes
  • Receptors, Chimeric Antigen

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC8873238

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85125330491

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1182/blood-2018-99-113548

PubMed ID

  • 35210399

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 12

issue

  • 2