Table 1 Available data on surrogate endpoints in mature B-cell neoplasms.

From: Surrogate endpoints in mature B-cell neoplasms – meaningful or misleading?

Authors/Study

Lymphoma Subtype

Numbers of patients/trials

IPD

Surrogate Endpoint/True Endpoint

Individual /patient- level surrogacy

Trial-level surrogacy

Beauchemin et al. [21]

CLL

23 trials

No

PFS/OS

Rho: 0.813

NA

Shi et al. [23]

FL

13 trials, 3837 patients

Yes

OR CR30/HR PFS

OR CR30/PFS

11.8

R2WLS: 0.88

R2Copula:0.86

Zhu et al. [33]

FL

MCL

52 trials, 5542 patients

32 trials, 1425 patients

No

6MoPFS/3year PFS

6MoPFS/Median PFS

6MoPFS/2year OS

6MoPFS/Median OS

R2: 0.89

R2: 0.66

R2: 0.69

R2: 0.71

NA

Simon et al. [22]

CLL

12 trials, 4237 patients

+ external dataset 9 trials with 3993 patients

Yes + No for external dataset

PFS/OS

MRD/PFS

MRD/OS

24MoPFS/60Mo OS: Rho 0.97

HR PFS uMRD vs. MRD: 4.74

HR OS uMRD vs. MRD: 3.02

HR PFS/OS

R: 0.75

R2: 0.56

OR MRD/HR PFS

R: 0.88

R2: 0.78

OR MRD/HR OS

R: 0.71

R2: 0.5

Bahar et al. [29]

CLL

29 trials

No

ORR/PFS

PFS/OS

Rho = 0.58

Rho = 0.58

Milrod et al. [34]

FL

22 trials, 10,729 patients

No

HR PFS/OS

NA

LWR: 0.383

R2: 0.15

  1. CLL chronic lymphocytic leukemia, FL follicular lymphoma, IPD individual patient data, WLS weighted least squares, LWR linear weighted regression, HR Hazard ratio, OR Odds ratio, PFS Progression-free survival, OS Overall survival, MRD measurable residual disease.