Indirect Comparison of Linvoseltamab Versus Teclistamab for the Treatment of Triple-Class Exposed Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma
Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia, 2025
Background
B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) bispecific antibodies have advanced treatment of relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM), but comparative data are lacking.
Methods
An unanchored matching-adjusted indirect comparison (MAIC) was conducted between linvoseltamab and teclistamab in triple-class exposed (TCE) RRMM using patient-level data from LINKER-MM1 (117 patients, linvoseltamab 200 mg, data cutoff 1/2024, median follow-up [mFU] 14.3 months) and aggregate data from MajesTEC-1 (165 patients, teclistamab 1.5 mg/kg, data cutoff 2/2022, mFU 14.1 months). Ten LINKER-MM1 patients with prior BCMA antibody-drug conjugate exposure were excluded to match MajesTEC-1 eligibility criteria. LINKER-MM1 patients were weighted to match MajesTEC-1 on 6 prespecified prognostic factors considered most important by an international MM expert panel.
Results
After matching (effective sample size = 83.0), linvoseltamab showed significantly longer progression-free survival (PFS, P = .004), overall survival (OS, P = .039), and time to next treatment (P = .028), and numerically longer duration of response ((P = .100) than teclistamab based on hazard ratios. Linvoseltamab demonstrated numerically higher objective response rate, very good partial response or better, complete response or better (≥CR), and minimal residual disease-negativity (10-5 threshold) rates versus teclistamab based on odds ratios. Additional MAICs matching all prognostic factors available in both trials showed significantly longer PFS (P = .038) and OS (P = .039), significantly higher ≥CR (P = .043), and favorable trends for all other outcomes.
Conclusion
This analysis demonstrated statistically improved PFS and OS and numerically favorable results for all other outcomes for linvoseltamab versus teclistamab in the treatment of TCE RRMM.
Authors
Lee HC, Bumma N, Richter J, Zonder JA, Hoffman JE, Zhou ZY, García-Horton V, Fillbrunn M, Wang H, Mattera M, Ma W, Inocencio TJ, Xu Y, Bergrath E, Harnett J, Roccia T, Knorr K, Kroog GS, Lorenc KR, Ma Q, Jagannath S