Overview
It's all in the details
It is a numbers game
Are you confused or is it neurotox?
A cytokine storm is brewing
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In this section of the PI you will confirm that Carvykti can only be administer in centers that have completed this type of certification/program



What is REMs- Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy Program


PI sections: 

  • Black box warning, Section 5 Warnings and Precautions, Section 2 Dosage & Administration (monitoring) REMs- Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy Program
100

A single dose of Carvykti contains this cell suspension and would be located here in the PI

What is 0.75×10⁶ CAR-positive viable T cells per kg?

PI: Section 2 Dosing and Administration, Section 3 Dosage forms & Strengths, Section 6 Clinical Trials Experience, Section 14 Clinical Studies

100

21.8 months is the duration of response with this most recent update and is located in this section of the PI

What is 2 year update?


PI: Section 14 Clinical Studies

100

Neurotox or ICANS was seen in this % of patients on study and this information is found here in the PI


What is 21%

PI:  Section 5 Warnings and Precautions, Section 6 Adverse Reactions: Clinical Trials Experience

100

The median time to on set of CRS symptoms and the median duration that it lasts are this. Information can be found here in the PI

what is 7 and 4 days?

PI: Section 5 Warning and Precautions

200

Name 3 warnings you will most likely find within the Carvykti PI and where these warnings will be found in the PI


What are:

  • CRS 
  • NT
  • Prolonged Cytopenias
  • REMs
  • HLH/MAS

PI sections: Black box warning, Section 5 Warnings and Precautions, Section 17 Patient counseling

200

This should be avoided prophylactically if the patient is going to receive Carvykti and this information is located here in the PI

What is Dexamethasone or other systemic steroids/corticosteroids

PI: Top of PI, Section 2 DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION

200

At the 2 year follow up, overall survival was achieved by this % of patients and this information is located here in the PI

What is 74%?

PI: Section 14 Clinical Studies

200

The median time to ICANS onset is this and its duration is this which can be found in this section in the PI


What is 8 days and 4 days.

PI: Section 5 Warnings and Precautions

200

These are the 3 most common drugs used to treat CRS


What is toci, anakinra and corticosteroids?

300

According to the Lancet article, this is the median turnaround time (defined as time from receipt to release of product) for CARVYKTI and where it can be found in the PI 

 What is 29 days and 

PI section 14: clinical studies

300

Prior to every Carvykti administration this drug needs to be at the institution and you would find this information here in the PI

What is Tocilizumab?


Top of PI, Section 2 DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION, Section 5 Warning & precautions (CRS & REMs sections)

300

Stringent Complete Response rates increased from this % at ~1 yr to this % at 2 yrs


What is 67% to 83%

PI: Section 14 Clinical Studies

300

The majority of patients that experienced ICANS were 10% and this grade which is found here in the PI


what is grade 1?

PI: Section 5 Warnings and Precautions, Section 6 Adverse Reactions: Clinical Trials Experience

300

This is given to patients that have a low wbc, however in the setting of CRS it should be avoided

what is GCSF?

400

In ABECMA this animal is used, whereas for CARVYKTI this one was selected and this information would be located in this section of the PI

 


What are mice and llamas?( Go LLAMAS!) 

What is in Section 11 Description & Section 12

Clinical Pharmacology MOA

400

Carvykti should be administered this many days after the START of the lymphodepletion and this information  is located here in the PI

What is 5 to 7 days?

PI : Section 2 Dosage and Administration

400

The median time to first response was this, while the median time to best response is this and is found here in the PI


What is 1 month and 2.6 months?


PI: Section 14 Clinical Studies

400

Parkinsonism, Mental status change, tremor, somnolence, ataxia, confusional state are all examples of this


What are examples of neurotoxicity?

400

By the NCI CTCAE (version 5.0) you would be this grade if you had these symptoms

Temp 38 deg C & hypotension that responds to fluids & O2 at 3L NC

In the PI this information is located here. 

What is grade 2?

PI Section: Section 2 Dosage and Administration: Management of Severe Adverse Reactions.

500

One monitoring or mitigation strategy that was implemented to minimize risk for patients receiving Carvykti.

What is: 

-to allow investigators to give their choice of bridging therapy to reduce the risk of rapid progression during manufacturing.

-Early aggressive treatment of cytokine release syndrome and ICANS(handwriting assessments for early detection of NT symptoms: micrographia) and extended monitoring and reporting time for neurotoxicity up to 1 year after cilta-cel infusion

500

Carvykti (in CARTITUDE 1) is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have received.... and the PI would say this here.

What is received 3 or more previous lines of therapy including PI, IMiD, and anti-CD38 therapy, or double refractory to PI and IMiD


PI: Top, Section 1 Indications and usage, Section 14 Clinical Studies

500

This % of patients were MRD negative of the 61 evaluated and is located here in the PI


What is 92%

PI: Section 14 Clinical Studies

500

At the 2 year update these were the new safety signals and information about this is located here in the PI

what are there are no new saftey signals!

PI: Section 6 Adverse Reactions: Clinical Trials Experience

500

A rare condition that can evolve from severe CRS is characterized by high serum ferritin, LDH, soluble CD25, cytokines and low fibrinogen


What is HLH/MAS

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