Efficacy and manageable toxicity of mogamulizumab in a real-world North American cohort of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL).
e18603 Background: Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), a malignancy of CD4+ T-cells linked to HTLV-1 infection, carries a poor prognosis. Treatment options beyond allogeneic transplantation remain limited. Mogamulizumab, a CCR4-targeting monoclonal antibody, is FDA-approved for relapsed cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and has shown efficacy in Japanese ATLL. However, North American ATLL (NA-ATLL) differs genomically and transcriptionally from Japanese ATLL, potentially driving worse outcomes. To address the limited treatment options for NA-ATLL, this study evaluates mogamulizumab in relapse/refractory NA-ATLL. Methods: Nine patients with relapsed/refractory ATLL treated with mogamulizumab were analyzed. Median age was 63 years (range: 42–77), with 67% Black/African American. Subtypes included acute/leukemic (n=5) and lymphomatous (n=4). Patients had received a median of three prior therapies (range: 1–4). Primary endpoints were overall response rate (ORR), progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), and adverse event (AE) assessment. OS was compared to historical controls. DNA was isolated from the peripheral blood of thirty-seven ATLL patients from our center and sent to NeoGenomics for mutational analysis via Next Generation Sequencing. Results: Mogamulizumab demonstrated an ORR of 55.6%, with two complete responses and three partial responses. Four patients experienced disease progression. The median number of mogamulizumab infusions administered was 9 (range: 1–14). AEs were infrequent and manageable, including febrile reactions (n=2) and fatigue (n=1). Two patients had prolonged survival after treatment discontinuation, with one showing clonal evolution and loss of a pathogenic mutation. The median OS for the mogamulizumab cohort was 309 days versus 33 days in the historical control group (p=0.0013). These findings highlight the potential of mogamulizumab as an effective and tolerable treatment option in this patient population, warranting further investigation. Conclusions: Our findings highlight the efficacy and tolerability of mogamulizumab in a real-world NA-ATLL cohort, showing improved survival outcomes compared to historical controls. These results support the inclusion of mogamulizumab in the treatment paradigm for heavily pre-treated ATLL patients. Larger prospective studies are warranted to re-explore its potential as monotherapy or in combination regimens in real world settings.
Authors
- Alyssa de Castro
- Salvatore Lia
- Kith Pradhan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7089-1652)
- Marina Konopleva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9347-2212)
- Ioannis Mantzaris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8346-5767)
- Roy Browne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9756-3026)
- Beth N. McLellan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9860-2314)
- Nishi Shah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4723-6745)
- Kira Gritsman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1367-1167)
- Lauren Shapiro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0138-8986)
- Noah Kornblum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5985-2011)
- Dennis Cooper (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0233-8876)
- Mendel Goldfinger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4347-173X)
- Liam Townsend (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7089-0665)
- Emma Cordover
- Ridhi Gupta
- Amit K. Verma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7592-7693)
- Aditi Shastri
- B. Hilda Ye
- Alejandro Sica
Institutions
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (US)
- Montefiore Medical Center (US)
- Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Published
- 2025-05-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2025.43.16_suppl.e18603
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- T-cell and Retrovirus Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.80