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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jun 21.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2024 Jun 20;390(23):2143–2155. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2401532

Table 1:

Baseline Patient Characteristics

Characteristic Phase Ib Phase II All DLBCL
(N=50)
All Patients
(N=60)
DL1-DL4
(N=20)
DLBCL Cohort
(N=40)
Median (range) age – yr. 58 (34-76) 59 (29-77) 61 (29-77) 58 (29-77)
Male sex – no. (%) 13 (65%) 26 (65%) 33 (66%) 39 (65%)
Race and ethnicity – no. (%)
Caucasian 15 (75%) 25 (63%) 33 (66%) 40 (67%)
African American 3 (15%) 10 (25%) 11 (22%) 13 (22%)
Asian 2 (10%) 1 (3%) 2 (4%) 3 (5%)
Hispanic 0 (0%) 4 (10%) 4 (8%) 4 (7%)
Disease histology – no. (%)
Non-GCB DLBCL, NOS 4 (20%) 9 (23%) 13 (26%) 13 (22%)
HGBCL-DH-BCL6 0 (0%) 3 (8%) 3 (6%) 3 (5%)
THRLBCL 0 (0%) 5 (13%) 5 (10%) 5 (8%)
GCB DLBCL, NOS 4 (20%) 8 (20%) 12 (24%) 12 (20%)
HGBCL-DH-BCL2 2 (10%) 15 (38%) 17 (34%) 17 (28%)
FL 8 (40%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 8 (13%)
MZL 2 (10%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 2 (3%)
Transformed lymphoma – no. (%) a, b 4 (40%) 13 (33%) 17 (34%) --
ECOG ≥2 – no. (%) 3 (15%) 4 (10%) 7 (14%) 7 (12%)
Stage III/IV – no. (%) 18 (90%) 37 (93%) 46 (92%) 55 (92%)
Elevated LDH – no. (%) 13 (65%) 35 (88%) 43 (86%) 48 (80%)
Extranodal sites ≥2 – no. (%) 12 (60%) 22 (55%) 28 (56%) 34 (57%)
IPI ≥3 – no. (%) a 7 (70%) 27 (68%) 34 (68%) --
Median (range) prior therapies 3 (1-7) 3 (1-9) 3 (1-9) 3 (1-9)
Prior therapies- no. (%)
One prior study agentc 6 (30%) 14 (35%) 18 (36%) 20 (33%)
ASCT 4 (20%) 3 (8%) 5 (10%) 7 (12%)
Allo-HSCT 1 (5%) 0 (0%) 1 (2%) 1 (2%)
CAR-T 3 (15%) 17 (43%) 20 (40%) 20 (33%)
Refractory status - no. (%)
Primary refractory 9 (45%) 27 (68%) 30 (60%) 36 (60%)
Refractory per SCHOLAR-1a 6 (60%) 23 (58%) 29 (58%) --
a

Aggressive B-cell lymphoma patients only (N=50);

b

Seventeen patients had transformed DLBCL from an underlying indolent lymphoma, 15 from follicular lymphoma and 2 from marginal zone lymphoma, including 9 who transformed to HGBCL-DH-BCL2, 5 to GCB DLBCL, NOS, and 3 to non-GCB DLBCL, NOS;

c

Includes 12 patients who received prior lenalidomide, 7 patients who received prior ibrutinib or acalabrutinib, and 1 patient who received prior venetoclax;

Abbreviations: Non-GCB DLBCL, NOS, non-germinal center B-cell diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified; HGBCL-DH-BCL6, high-grade B-cell lymphoma, double-hit, with MYC and BCL6 rearrangements; THRLBCL, T-cell/histiocyte-rich large B-cell lymphoma; GCB DLBCL, NOS, germinal center B-cell diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified; HGBCL-DH-BCL2, high-grade B-cell lymphoma, double-hit, with MYC and BCL2 rearrangements; FL, follicular lymphoma; MZL, marginal zone lymphoma; ECOG, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance score; LDH, lactate dehydrogenase; IPI, international prognostic index; ASCT, autologous stem cell transplantation; Allo-HSCT, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; CAR-T, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy; DL, dose level.