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100 _aKumar, Shaji
_eAutor
_953732
245 _aContinuous or fixed-duration maintenance therapy in multiple myeloma
300 _apáginas: 221-232
520 _aBackground: Current treatment of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma involves lenalidomide maintenance therapy given until disease progression. The appropriate duration of maintenance therapy with lenalidomide has been unclear. Methods: In this phase 3 trial, we enrolled patients with standard-risk newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who were not undergoing up-front autologous stem-cell transplantation. After induction treatment with a proteasome inhibitor–lenalidomide combination, patients were randomly assigned to receive indefinite-duration (continuous) lenalidomide or fixed-duration lenalidomide (for 2 years). The primary end point was overall survival; the trial had 80% power to detect a 50% increase in median survival (from 5 years to 7.5 years), with a two-sided alpha level of 5%, 395 patients undergoing randomization, and 204 deaths occurring during 9 years of follow-up. Results: At the end of induction, 516 patients were randomly assigned to the indefinite-duration group (260 patients) or the fixed-duration group (256 patients). At a median follow-up of 86 months, overall survival did not differ significantly between the groups. With 80 deaths in each group, overall survival at 7 years was 68.6% in the indefinite-duration group and 69.0% in the fixed-duration group (difference, −0.4 percentage points; 95 confidence interval [CI], −9.0 to 8.3; P=0.93). Progression-free survival at 7 years was 36.1% in the indefinite-duration group and 29.7% in the fixed-duration group (difference, 6.4 percentage points; 95% CI, −2.6 to 15.4). The 5-year cumulative incidence of second primary cancers, excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer, was 11.2% with indefinite-duration lenalidomide and 8.3% with fixed-duration lenalidomide. More adverse events occurred with indefinite-duration lenalidomide; the incidence of nonhematologic events of grade 3 or higher was 48.2% with indefinite-duration therapy and 31.5% with fixed-duration therapy. Conclusions: In this phase 3 trial involving patients with standard-risk newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who were not undergoing up-front autologous stem-cell transplantation, indefinite-duration maintenance therapy after induction therapy did not result in significantly longer overall survival than fixed-duration maintenance therapy.
650 _aLEUCEMIA
_933873
650 _aLIMFOMA
_953733
650 _aTRATAMIENTOS EN ONCOLOGÍA
_953734
700 _aJacobus, Susanna
_953735
700 _aCohen, Adam
_953736
700 _aWeiss, Matthias
_953737
700 _aCallander, Natalie
_953738
700 _aSingh, Avina
_953739
773 0 _022717
_922636
_dMassachusetts NEJM Group
_oNEJM003
_tThe New England Journal of Medicine
_wESSALUD
_x0028-4793
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_e2026-07-31
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