# MAVORIC

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## TL;DR

MAVORIC showed that mogamulizumab, an antibody that clears the malignant T cells that carry the CCR4 protein, kept cutaneous T-cell lymphoma under control for longer than the standard tablet vorinostat, and did especially well in the blood-involved Sezary form, which led to its approval.

## Summary

MAVORIC was an open-label phase 3 trial in patients with mycosis fungoides or Sezary syndrome who had failed at least one systemic therapy. Patients were randomised to mogamulizumab, an afucosylated antibody against CCR4 that depletes malignant T cells, or to vorinostat, an approved histone deacetylase inhibitor; patients progressing on vorinostat could cross over.

Mogamulizumab significantly prolonged progression-free survival, the primary endpoint, with higher response rates, and the benefit was greatest in patients with blood involvement, the hallmark of Sezary syndrome. It was the first randomised trial in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma to compare two systemic drugs head to head and led to approval of mogamulizumab in the United States in August 2018.

## Fields

- Kind: Trial
- Status: positive
- Last checked: 2026-09-17
- Tags: subtype-trials
- Registry id: NCT01728805
- Phase: 3
- Setting: Previously treated mycosis fungoides or Sezary syndrome: the anti-CCR4 antibody mogamulizumab against the oral HDAC inhibitor vorinostat, with crossover allowed
- Sponsor: Kyowa Kirin
- Enrolled: 372
- Result: Mogamulizumab improved progression-free survival over vorinostat in previously treated mycosis fungoides and Sezary syndrome; approved in August 2018.

## Sources

- ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01728805: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01728805

## Connected records

- cancers: [Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (mycosis fungoides and Sezary syndrome)](https://onco.cc/cancers/cutaneous-t-cell-lymphoma/), [Peripheral T-cell lymphomas (including cutaneous T-cell lymphoma)](https://onco.cc/cancers/peripheral-t-cell-lymphoma/)
- drugs: [Mogamulizumab](https://onco.cc/drugs/mogamulizumab/), [Vorinostat](https://onco.cc/drugs/vorinostat/)
- companies: [Kyowa Kirin](https://onco.cc/companies/kyowa-kirin/)
- people: [Youn H. Kim](https://onco.cc/people/youn-kim/)
- key papers: [MAVORIC: mogamulizumab versus vorinostat in previously treated cutaneous T-cell lymphoma](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-mavoric-mogamulizumab-lancet-oncol-2018/)

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