# Relmacabtagene autoleucel (relma-cel) CD19 CAR-T therapy for adults with heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma in China

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## TL;DR

Paper cited by one trial page and one treatment page, indexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 33382529 and published in Cancer medicine; the citing pages link this DOI, which is how the record was matched.

## Summary

Background: Despite numerous chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) trials conducted in China, no CAR-T has been registered in the country. Furthermore, China law and regulations restrict the export of patient material for CAR-T manufacture abroad. Relma-cel (JWCAR029), an anti-CD19 product produced with a commercial-ready process in China, was evaluated in the first prospective, single-arm, multicenter, pivotal study of CAR-T therapy conducted under Chinese IND to support an NMPA-accepted BLA submission in relapsed/refractory (r/r) LBCL (NCT04089215).

Methods: Patients were randomized to receive either 100 × 10 6 (low dose, n = 27) or 150 × 10 6 (high dose, n = 32) CAR+ T-cells as a single infusion following lymphodepleting chemotherapy (fludarabine 25 mg/m 2 and cyclophosphamide 250 mg/m 2 daily × 3), and then, monitored for efficacy and safety outcomes and pharmacokinetics. The primary endpoint was ORR at 3 months, as assessed by the investigators. Secondary endpoints included DOR, PFS, OS, and adverse event frequency/severity and cell expansion kinetics.

Results: at the data cutoff on 17 June 2020, 68 patients were enrolled, and 59 were treated. Among the 58 efficacy-evaluable patients, the primary endpoint of 3 month ORR was 60.3% (95% CI, 46.6-73.0), excluding the null hypothesis rate of 20%. Any grade and severe grade CRS occurred in 47.5% and 5.1%, respectively, and any grade and severe grade neurotoxicity events occurred in 20.3% and 5.1%.

Conclusions: Relma-cel met the primary endpoint analysis and demonstrated a high rate of durable responses and low rate of CAR-T-associated toxicities in patients with r/r LBCL in a multicenter trial supporting regulatory submission in China.

Indexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 33382529 (DOI 10.1002/cam4.3686). Matched by DOI alone: one trial page and one treatment page cite this DOI among their external links (the pages are listed under Related), and this page was written so that the citation resolves inside OnCo. No figure has been checked by an editor.

## Fields

- Kind: Key paper
- Last checked: 2026-09-22
- Tags: europepmc-ingest
- Journal: Cancer medicine
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1002/cam4.3686
- Authors: Ying Z, Yang H, Guo Y, et al.
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## Sources

- Cancer Med 2021: https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.3686
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33382529/
- Europe PMC: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/33382529

## Connected records

- drugs: [Relmacabtagene autoleucel](https://onco.cc/drugs/relmacabtagene-autoleucel/)
- trials: [RELIANCE](https://onco.cc/trials/reliance/)
- journals: [Cancer medicine](https://onco.cc/journals/cancer-medicine/)

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