RELEVANCE phase III trial of Revlimid fails to meet endpoint in follicular lymphoma.- Celgene Corp.
Celgene Corporation announced additional results from RELEVANCE, a phase III, randomized, open-label, international clinical study of Revlimid (lenalidomide) plus rituximab (R2), followed by R2 maintenance, an investigational regimen, compared to the standard of care treatment of rituximab plus chemotherapy (R-chemo: R-CHOP, R-bendamustine or R-CVP) followed by rituximab maintenance in patients with previously untreated follicular lymphoma. Investigators found that treatment with a chemotherapy-free R2 regimen offered numerically similar efficacy results for the primary endpoints of progression free survival (PFS) and complete response or unconfirmed complete response (CR/CRu) at 120 weeks with a different safety profile than treatment with the conventional R-chemo standard. As previously disclosed, the study did not achieve the primary endpoints of superior PFS and CR/CRu.
The co-primary efficacy endpoints of the study were CR and CRu at 120 weeks and PFS during the pre-planned analysis (final analysis of CR/CRu and interim analysis of PFS). An analysis of the findings found that 48% of patients in the R2 arm and 53% of those receiving R-chemo maintained CR/Cru 120 weeks after randomization, with a 3-year estimated interim PFS rate of 77% and 78% respectively. Preliminary overall survival, one of the study’s secondary endpoints, showed a 3-year survival rate of 94% in both treatment arms.
Other secondary endpoints included number of patients with adverse events, time to treatment failure, event-free survival, time to next anti-lymphoma treatment, time to next chemotherapy treatment, overall response rate at 120 weeks based on International Working Group (IWG) 1999 criteria, and health-related quality of life as measured by the EORTC QLQ-C30. The majority of patients in both arms completed treatment (69% R2 and 71% R-chemo). The most common Grade 3/4 TEAEs in both arms were neutropenia (32% R2 vs. 50% R-chemo), febrile neutropenia (2% R2 vs. 7% R-chemo) and cutaneous events (7% R2 vs. 1% R-chemo). Data were presented at the 54th Annual American Society of Clinical Oncology Scientific Sessions (ASCO).