Tafasitamab with lenalidomide for treating relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Publication year: 2023
People with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma who cannot have an
autologous stem cell transplant usually have polatuzumab vedotin plus rituximab and
bendamustine.
The clinical evidence is from a small study that did not directly compare tafasitamab plus
lenalidomide with any other treatment. The committee considered that the study results
were promising because they show that some people's disease responds to tafasitamab
plus lenalidomide. Indirect evidence suggests that people who have tafasitamab plus
lenalidomide have more time before their disease gets worse than people who have
polatuzumab vedotin plus rituximab and bendamustine. It also suggests that they live
longer. But there is uncertainty about these results because the survival times for people
having polatuzumab vedotin plus rituximab and bendamustine used in the modelling do
not reflect the real-world survival times of the treatment in clinical practice, compared with
bendamustine and rituximab alone. The methods used for the indirect comparisons are
also not clear.