Long-term real world evidence of CPX-351 of high-risk AML patients identified high rate of negative MRD and prolonged OS

: CPX-351 has been approved for patients with therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia (t-AML) or AML with myelodysplasia-related changes (MRC-AML). No extensive data are available on MRD and long-term clinical outcome using CPX-351 in AML in real-life. We retrospectively collected data from 168 patients in 36 centers in France and Italy who had received one or two cycles of induction with CPX-351. All patients were older than 18 years and had newly diagnosed, untreated t-AML or MRC-AML. With a median follow-up of 3 years, median OS was 13.3 months. Median OS was 20.4 months vs. 12.9 months for patients with MRD below or above 10-3, respectively (p=0.006). In a multivariate analysis, only MRD >10-3 was associated with a poorer OS (hazard ratio [HR]=2.6, 95% CI 1.2-5.5, p=0.013). We also observed a trend towards a better median OS in patients who underwent HSCT with MRD <10-3 (not reached vs. 26.0 months, p=0.06). Achievement of MRD negativity contributed to the improvement of OS in the overall population and, maybe, in transplanted patients. These data provide the rationale for the two ongoing studies evaluating CPX-351 vs. 7+3 in non-MRC-AML and non-t-AML using MRD as the primary endpoint for ALFA-2101 phase II clinical trial and event-free survival for AMLSG 30-18 phase III clinical trial.