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Treatment of Angioimmunoblastic Lymphadenopathy (AILD)-Type T-Cell Lymphoma Using Prednisone with or without the COPBLAM/IMVP-16 Regimen
A Multicenter Study
- Wolfgang Siegert, MD;
- Alexander Agthe;
- Henrik Griesser, MD;
- Rainer Schwerdtfeger, MD;
- Günter Brittinger, MD;
- Marianne Engelhard, MD;
- Rolf Kuse, MD;
- Markus Tiemann, MD;
- Karl Lennert, MD; and
- Dieter Huhn, MD
Abstract
▪ Objective: To describe the clinical course of patients with angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy (AILD)-type lymphoma with a sequential treatment with prednisone and COPBLAM/IMVP-16.
▪ Design: A multicenter, prospective, nonrandomized trial.
▪ Setting: University medical centers and community hospitals.
▪ Patients: Sixty-seven patients were registered, 28 were excluded, and 39 patients were evaluable for response (median age, 59 years; range, 25 to 82 years) (stages I and II, 10%; stages III and IV, 90%; B symptoms, 74%).
▪ Measurements: Response, survival, and relapse.
▪ Intervention: Patients initially received prednisone and no further treatment if a complete remission was achieved. Relapsing or refractory patients were treated with COPBLAM/IMVP-16. Patients with life-threatening tumor progression or extension received COPBLAM/IMVP-16 initially. Treatments were chosen in accordance with tumor extension and response to prednisone. Treatment modalities were not compared.
▪ Results: Twenty-eight patients received primary prednisone, 18 received secondary prednisone, and 11 received primary chemotherapy. The complete response rates (with 95% Cls) were 29% (Cl, 12% to 46%), 56% (Cl, 33% to 79%), and 64% (Cl, 36% to 92%), respectively. The median observation time of surviving patients was 28 months (range, 7 to 53). The median overall survival time was 15 months. The probabilities (with 95% Cls) of overall survival, event-free survival, and relapse at 36 months were 40.5% (Cl, 24% to 56%), 32.3% (Cl, 17% to 47%), and 34.6% (Cl, 14% to 56%), respectively. At the time of evaluation, 22 of 39 patients had died, 7 of noninfectious complications and 14 of infections.
▪ Conclusions: Prednisone with or without COPBLAM/IMVP-16 treatment in AILD-type lymphoma leads to complete remissions in about half of the patients and in long-term, disease-free survival for one third.
Article and Author Information
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From the Klinikum Rudolf Virchow, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin; Pathologisches Institut der Universitat Kiel, Kiel; Medizinische Universitätsklinik, Essen; and Allgemeines Krankenhaus St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany. For current author addresses, see end of text.
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Requests for Reprints: Wolfgang Siegert, MD, Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsklinikum Rudolf Virchow, Standort Charlottenburg, Spandauer Damm 130, 1000 Berlin 19, Germany.
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Current Author Addresses: Drs. Siegert, Huhn, and Schwerdtfeger and Mr. Agthe: Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsklinikum Rudolf Virchow, Standort Charlottenburg, Spandauer Damm 130, 1000 Berlin 19, Germany.
Drs. Lennert, Griesser, and Tiemann: Universität Kiel, Niemannsweg 11, D-2300 Kiel 1, Germany.
Drs. Brittinger and Engelhard: Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, Universität GHS, Hufelandstrasse 55, 4300 Essen 1, Germany. Dr. Kuse: Allgemeines Krankenhaus St. Georg, Lohmühlenstrasse 5, 2000 Hamburg 1, Germany.
- ©1992 American College of Physicians
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