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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2018 Oct 21;125(1):135–143. doi: 10.1002/cncr.31738

Table 4:

Frontline CLL treatment regimens ranked by prevalence and stratified by diagnosis year

2008 2014
Regimen N (%*) Regimen N (%*)
All Cases
Most common FCR 67 (25.8) BR 133 (35.5)
2nd most common R monotherapy 35 (14.7) R monotherapy 58 (14.8)
3rd most common FR 30 (10.2) FCR 52 (11.9)
4th most common Chlorambucil +/− 26 (9.5) Ibrutinib 34 (8.4)
Age < 70 at diagnosis
Most common FCR 53 (40.7) BR 89 (42.5)
2nd most common FR 20 (13.2) FCR 51 (19.9)
3rd most common R monotherapy 11 (7.7) Ibrutinib 23 (10.5)
4th most common CVP +/− R <11 R monotherapy 26 (9.8)
Age70 at diagnosis
Most common R monotherapy 24 (21.9) BR 44 (25.4)
2nd most common Chlorambucil +/− 17 (12.8) R monotherapy 32 (22.2)
3rd most common Other 13 (11.2) Other 11 (12.6)
4th most common R + anything else <11 Obinutuzumab 16 (11.4)
Charlson Comorbidity Score = 0
Most common FCR 56 (31.8) BR 96 (39.1)
2nd most common FR 25 (12.7) FCR 41 (13.7)
3rd most common R monotherapy 20 (11.6) R monotherapy 39 (13.0)
4th most common Chlorambucil +/− 16 (7.8) Ibrutinib 24 (8.9)
Charlson Comorbidity Score 1 or more
Most common R monotherapy 15 (21.5) BR 37 (28.0)
2nd most common Chlorambucil +/− <11 R monotherapy 18 (18.7)
3rd most common FCR <11 Obinutuzumab 13 (12.8)
4th most common CVP +/− R <11 Ibrutinib <11

Abbreviations: CLL, chronic lymphocytic leukemia; FCR, fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab; BR, bendamustine and rituximab; R, rituximab; FR, fludarabine and rituximab; CVP, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisone.

*

Percentages are weighted by sampling fraction to reflect the SEER 14 population from which the data was obtained

To protect patient confidentiality only the 4 most common regimens are presented and any cell sizes <11 have been suppressed.