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Health-related quality of life data from a phase 3, international, randomized, open-label, multicenter study in patients with previously treated mantle cell lymphoma treated with ibrutinib versus temsirolimus. Leukemia & lymphoma Hess, G., Rule, S., Jurczak, W., Jerkeman, M., Santucci Silva, R., Rusconi, C., Caballero, D., Joao, C., Witzens-Harig, M., Bence-Bruckler, I., Cho, S., Zhou, W., Goldberg, J. D., Trambitas, C., Enny, C., Vermeulen, J., Traina, S., Chiou, C., Diels, J., Dreyling, M. 2017: 1-9

Abstract

Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a rare, aggressive, incurable B-cell malignancy. Ibrutinib has been shown to be highly active for patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) MCL. The RAY trial (MCL3001) was a phase 3, randomized, open-label, multicenter study that compared ibrutinib with temsirolimus in patients with R/R MCL. Active disease is frequently associated with impaired functional status and reduced well-being. Therefore, the current study employed two patient-reported outcome instruments, the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lymphoma (FACT-Lym) and the EQ-5D-5L, to assess symptoms, well-being, health status, and health-related quality of life of patients on treatment within the RAY trial. We found that patients on ibrutinib had substantial improvement in FACT-Lym subscale and total scores, and had improvement in EQ-5D-5L utility and VAS scores compared with temsirolimus patients, indicating a superior well-being. These improvements in well-being correlated with clinical response, indicating that better health-related quality of life was associated with decreased disease burden.

View details for DOI 10.1080/10428194.2017.1326034

View details for PubMedID 28556689