Table 1 Description of lymphodepletion doses and anti-CD19 CAR – T kinetics in pivotal clinical trials in lymphoma.

From: Lymphodepletion chemotherapy in chimeric antigen receptor-engineered T (CAR-T) cell therapy in lymphoma

CAR-T product [Commercial name]

Indications [Clinical trial]

Formulation

Lymphodepletion regimen

Timing

Cellular CAR-T Kinetics

Reference

Median peak

AUC0-28

Median time to peak (days)

Axicabtagene ciloleucel [Yescarta]

R/R DLBCL, PMBCL, HGBCL, tFL [ZUMA-1]

Anti-CD19 CD28

Flu 30 mg/m2/d + Cy 500 mg/m2/d

Day -5 to -3

Responders (n = 29)

NA

Neelapu SS et al, [94]

65.76 cells/μL

799.69 cells/μL x days

Relapse (n = 51)

35.27 cells/μL

455.32 cells/μL x days

Non-responders (n = 17)

12.08 cells/μL

88.47 cells/μL x days

R/R LBCL [ZUMA-7]

Anti-CD19 CD28

Flu 30 mg/m2/d + Cy 500 mg/m2/d

Day -5 to -3

25.84 cells/mm³

NA

7 (range 2-233)

Locke FL et at, [95]

Tisagenlecleucela [Kymriah]

R/R DLBCL [JULIET]

Anti-CD19 4-1BB

Flu 25 mg/m2/d + Cy 250 mg/m2/d

Day -5 to -3

FluCy (n = 85)

Andreadis C et al, [36]

6310 copies/μg

65000 (copies/μg) x days

8.97

Bendamustine 90 mg/m2/d

Day -5 to -4

Bendamustine (n = 22)

5370 copies/μg

53600 (copies/μg) x days

8.82

R/R FL [ELARA]

Anti-CD19 4-1BB

Flu 25 mg/m2/d + Cy 250 mg/m2/d

Day -5 to -3

Responders (CR or PR, n = 81)

Fowler NH et al, [39]

6280 copies/μg

57500 copies/μg x days

9.92

Bendamustine 90 mg/m2/d

Day -5 to -4

Non-responders (SD or PD n = 12)

3000 copies/μg

20100 copies/μg x days

13

Lisocabtagene maraleucel [Breyanzi]

R/R DLBCL, HGBCL, PMBCL, tFL, FL grade 3B [TRANSCEND]

Anti-CD19 4-1BB

Flu 30 mg/m2/d + Cy 300 mg/m2/d

Day -5 to -3

23928·2 copies/μg

213730·1 day x copies/μg

12 (range 10-14)

Abramson JS et al, [95]

Brexucabtagene autoleucel [Tecartus]

R/R MCL [ZUMA-2]

Anti-CD19 CD28

Flu 30 mg/m2/d + Cy 500 mg/m2/d

Day -5 to -3

97.5 cells/μLb

1386.3 cells/μL x dayb

15

Wang M et al, [96]

  1. R/R relapse and/or refractory, DLBCL Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma, LBCL Large B-cell Lymphoma, PMBCL Primary mediastinal B-cell Lymphoma, HGBCL High-Grade B-cell Lymphoma, tFL transformed Follicular Lymphoma, FL Follicular Lymphoma, MCL Mantle Cell Lymphoma, Flu Fludarabine, Cy Cyclophosphamide, D day, CR complete response, PR partial response, SD stable disease, PD progression disease.
  2. aCellular kinetics in Tisa-cel for DLBCL (JULIET trial) are shown according to lymphodepletion, whereas for FL (ELARA), they are shown according to response.
  3. bData from MCL with Ki67 ≥ 30% (n = 40).