Table 2. Safety Profile of Therapeutic Options in Follicular Lymphomaa.
Agent | Most common adverse events | Black box warning | Contraindication |
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Immunomodulatory therapy | |||
Rituximab | Infusion-related reaction, fever, lymphopenia, chills, infection, asthenia | Fatal infusion-related reaction, severe mucocutaneous reaction, HBV reactivation, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy | None |
Obinutuzumab | Infusion-related reaction, fatigue, neutropenia, cough, URTI, musculoskeletal pain | HBV reactivation, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy | Hypersensitivity reaction to obinutuzumab or any of the excipients, including serum sickness with prior obinutuzumab use |
Lenalidomide | Cytopenia (neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, anemia, leukopenia), diarrhea, constipation, nausea, fatigue, pyrexia, cough, URTI, rash | Embryofetal toxicity, hematologic toxicity, venous/arterial thromboembolism | Pregnancy Demonstrated severe hypersensitivity to lenalidomide |
CAR T-cell therapy | |||
Axicabtagene ciloleucel | Cytopenia (neutropenia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, anemia), CRS, fever, hypotension, encephalopathy, tachycardia, fatigue, headache, febrile neutropenia, nausea, infection with unspecified pathogens, decreased appetite, chills, diarrhea, tremor, musculoskeletal pain, cough, hypoxia, constipation, vomiting, arrhythmias, dizziness | CRS, neurologic toxicity | None |
Tisagenlecleucel | Cytopenia (neutropenia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, anemia), CRS, infections-pathogens unspecified, fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, headache, diarrhea | CRS, neurologic toxicity | None |
Bispecific antibody therapy | |||
Mosunetuzumab | Cytopenia (lymphopenia, anemia, leukopenia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia), CRS, fatigue, rash, pyrexia, headache | CRS | None |
EZH2 inhibitor | |||
Tazemetostata | Fatigue, URTI, musculoskeletal pain, nausea, abdominal pain | None | None |
PI3K inhibitor | |||
Copanlisib | Hyperglycemia, diarrhea, decreased general strength/energy, hypertension, cytopenia (leukopenia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia), nausea, lower respiratory tract infection | None | None |
Note. CAR T-cell therapy = chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy; CRS = cytokine release syndrome; EZH2 = enhancer of zeste homolog 2; HBV = hepatitis B virus; PI3K = phosphoinositide 3 kinase; URTI = upper respiratory tract infection.
Includes wildtype and mutant-type EZH2.