TY - JOUR
T1 - 18F-Fluorothymidine PET is an early and superior predictor of progression-free survival following chemoimmunotherapy of diffuse large B cell lymphoma
T2 - a multicenter study
AU - Minamimoto, Ryogo
AU - Fayad, Luis
AU - Vose, Julie
AU - Meza, Jane
AU - Advani, Ranjana
AU - Hankins, Jordan
AU - Mottaghy, Felix
AU - Macapinlac, Homer
AU - Heinzel, Alexander
AU - Juweid, Malik E.
AU - Quon, Andrew
N1 - Funding Information:
This was a prospective, multi-institutional trial conducted at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; University of Nebraska Medical Center; University Hospital of Aachen, Germany; and Stanford University and funded by the National Institutes of Health (grant 1R01CA 152923–01A). This study was approved by the institutional review board at each of the four institutions and is fully compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Written informed consent was obtained from all of the subjects.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - Purpose: To determine whether interim 3′-deoxy-3′-[18F]fluorothymidine (iFLT) PET/CT is a superior predictor of progression-free survival (PFS) compared with interim 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (iFDG) PET/CT in patients with diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) treated with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CHOP) or rituximab, etoposide, prednisone, vincristine, cyclophosphamide, and doxorubicin (R-EPOCH). Methods: Ninety-two prospectively enrolled patients with DLBCL underwent both FLT-PET/CT and FDG-PET/CT 18–24 days after two cycles of R-CHOP/R-EPOCH. Deauville-criteria, PERCIST1.0, standardized uptake value (SUV), total lesion glycolysis (TLG), and metabolic tumor volume were used to interpret iFDG-PET/CT while dichotomous visual interpretation was used to interpret iFLT-PET/CT and the results were compared with the 3- and 5-year PFS. Results: iFLT-PET/CT was negative in 67 (73%) and positive in 25 (27%) patients. iFDG-PET/CT by Deauville criteria was negative (Deauville scores [DS] of 1–3) in 53 (58%) and positive (DS = 4–5) in 39 (42%) patients. Of the 67 iFLT-PET/CT-negative patients, 7 (10.4%) progressed at a median of 14.1 months whereas 14/25 (56.0%) iFLT-PET/CT-positive patients progressed at a median of 7.8 months (P <.0001). Of the 53 Deauville-negative patients, 9 (17.0%) progressed at a median of 14.1 months whereas 12/39 (30.8%) Deauville-positive patients progressed at a median of 5.6 months (P =.11). In multivariate analysis, including iFLT-PET/CT, PERCIST, interim TLG, and interim SUVmax, only iFLT-PET/CT was an independent predictor for 3- and 5-year PFS (P <.0001 and P =.001, respectively). Conclusions: In patients with DLBCL given R-CHOP/R-EPOCH, iFLT-PET/CT is a superior independent predictor of outcome compared with iFDG-PET/CT.
AB - Purpose: To determine whether interim 3′-deoxy-3′-[18F]fluorothymidine (iFLT) PET/CT is a superior predictor of progression-free survival (PFS) compared with interim 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (iFDG) PET/CT in patients with diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) treated with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CHOP) or rituximab, etoposide, prednisone, vincristine, cyclophosphamide, and doxorubicin (R-EPOCH). Methods: Ninety-two prospectively enrolled patients with DLBCL underwent both FLT-PET/CT and FDG-PET/CT 18–24 days after two cycles of R-CHOP/R-EPOCH. Deauville-criteria, PERCIST1.0, standardized uptake value (SUV), total lesion glycolysis (TLG), and metabolic tumor volume were used to interpret iFDG-PET/CT while dichotomous visual interpretation was used to interpret iFLT-PET/CT and the results were compared with the 3- and 5-year PFS. Results: iFLT-PET/CT was negative in 67 (73%) and positive in 25 (27%) patients. iFDG-PET/CT by Deauville criteria was negative (Deauville scores [DS] of 1–3) in 53 (58%) and positive (DS = 4–5) in 39 (42%) patients. Of the 67 iFLT-PET/CT-negative patients, 7 (10.4%) progressed at a median of 14.1 months whereas 14/25 (56.0%) iFLT-PET/CT-positive patients progressed at a median of 7.8 months (P <.0001). Of the 53 Deauville-negative patients, 9 (17.0%) progressed at a median of 14.1 months whereas 12/39 (30.8%) Deauville-positive patients progressed at a median of 5.6 months (P =.11). In multivariate analysis, including iFLT-PET/CT, PERCIST, interim TLG, and interim SUVmax, only iFLT-PET/CT was an independent predictor for 3- and 5-year PFS (P <.0001 and P =.001, respectively). Conclusions: In patients with DLBCL given R-CHOP/R-EPOCH, iFLT-PET/CT is a superior independent predictor of outcome compared with iFDG-PET/CT.
KW - DLBCL
KW - FDG
KW - FLT
KW - PET/CT
KW - PFS
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U2 - 10.1007/s00259-021-05353-9
DO - 10.1007/s00259-021-05353-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 33909086
AN - SCOPUS:85105420559
SN - 1619-7070
VL - 48
SP - 2883
EP - 2893
JO - European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
JF - European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
IS - 9
ER -