Immunomodulation in Pomalidomide, Dexamethasone, and Daratumumab-Treated Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma.
William E PierceallMichael D AmatangeloNizar J BahlisDavid S SiegelAdeeb RahmanOliver Van OekelenPaola NeriMary YoungWeiyuan ChungNatalya SerbinaSamir ParekhAmit AgarwalAnjan ThakurtaPublished in: Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (2020)
These data support a potential mechanism for enhanced immune-mediated cytotoxicity in which daratumumab-mediated NK-cell diminution is partially offset by pomalidomide effects on the remaining NK-cell pool. Furthermore, daratumumab antimyeloma activity and elimination of CD38+ T cells (regulatory/activated) provide a rationale for therapeutic combination with direct tumoricidal activity and immunomodulation of pomalidomide-directed T-cell enhancements. These data highlight enhancements in immune subpopulations for the combination of daratumumab with pomalidomide and potentially with next-generation cereblon-targeting agents.