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Volume 329:459-465 August 12, 1993 Number 7
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Radioimmunotherapy of B-Cell Lymphoma with [131I]Anti-B1 (Anti-CD20) Antibody
Mark S. Kaminski, Kenneth R. Zasadny, Isaac R. Francis, Adam W. Milik, Charles W. Ross, Scott D. Moon, Shelley M. Crawford, Jeanne M. Burgess, Neil A. Petry, Gregory M. Butchko, Stephan D. Glenn, and Richard L. Wahl

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Background Many patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas are not cured by current therapies, and new approaches to treatment are needed. As part of an ongoing phase 1 study, we examined the effect of radioimmunotherapy with 131I-labeled B-cell-specific anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody in 10 patients with CD20-positive B-cell lymphomas in whom primary chemotherapy had failed.

Methods and Results Anti-B1 (anti-CD20) mouse monoclonal antibody trace-labeled with 131I (15 mg containing 5 mCi) was given intravenously at approximately one-week intervals: first, without pretreatment with unlabeled anti-B1 antibody, to all 10 patients; then with pretreatment with 135 mg of unlabeled antibody, to 8 patients; and then, with pretreatment with 685 mg, to 2 patients. Serial quantitative gamma-camera images and measures of whole-body radioactivity were obtained after each tracer dose. All known disease sites larger than 2 cm could be imaged. The effect of a pretreatment dose of unlabeled anti-B1 antibody on targeting of the tumor with the radiolabeled antibody was variable.

The pretreatment dose of unlabeled antibody that produced the highest ratio of the tumor dose to the whole-body dose in tracer studies was then used to deliver higher doses of radioactivity for radioimmunotherapy in nine patients. Three patients received doses designed to deliver 25 cGy to the whole body (two patients treated twice, six to eight weeks apart), four patients received 35 cGy (one patient treated twice), and two patients received 45 cGy (one patient treated twice); each dose contained 34 to 66 mCi of activity. Six of the nine treated patients had tumor responses, including patients with bulky or chemotherapy-resistant disease: four patients had complete remissions, and two had partial responses. Three patients had objective responses to tracer infusions before they received radioimmunotherapeutic doses. Of the four patients with complete remissions, one remained in remission for eight months and the other three continue to have no disease progression (for 11, 9, and 8 months). There was mild or no myelosuppression.

Conclusions Radioimmunotherapy with [131I]anti-B1 antibody is a promising new treatment for lymphoma.


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From the Divisions of Hematology/Oncology (M.S.K., A.W.M., J.M.B.) and Nuclear Medicine (K.R.Z., S.D.M., S.M.C., N.A.P., R.L.W.), Department of Internal Medicine, and the Departments of Radiology (I.R.F., R.L.W.) and Pathology (C.W.R.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and the Coulter Corporation (G.M.B., S.D.G.), Hialeah, Fla.

Address reprint requests to Dr. Kaminski at the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, 102 Observatory St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0724.

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