News and Treatment Updates

Here's where you'll find a regularly updated, broad range of articles written by the AAMDSIF team, allied health organizations and news organizations. By staying well-informed, patients and families are practicing a form of self-support that will help them be more effective self-advocates when engaging with health care providers.

Drug in clinical trials for breast cancer could also treat some blood cancers

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Two new studies led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a possible way to block the progression of several forms of blood cancer using a drug already in clinical trials against breast cancer. The studies — both conducted in…

FDA Approves Axatilimab in 9 Mg and 22 Mg Vial Sizes for GVHD

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Axatilimab-csfr (Niktimvo), a CSF-1R–targeting agent that reduces the drivers of inflammation and fibrosis, has been approved by the FDA in 9 mg and 22 mg vial sizes to treat adult and pediatric patients with graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), according to a news release from the…

How I Treat Higher-Risk MDS with Alain Mina, Rami S. Komrokji

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Myelodysplastic syndromes/neoplasms (MDS) are a widely heterogenous group of myeloid malignancies characterized by morphologic dysplasia, a defective hematopoiesis, and recurrent genetic abnormalities. The original and revised International Prognostic Scoring Systems (IPSS) have…

Iron accelerates MDS progression

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In this issue of Blood, Antypiuk et al, utilizing a murine model, demonstrate that iron overload (IOL), accumulated via a mutation in the iron importer ferroportin, accelerates the myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) phenotype, leading to exacerbation of marrow failure, inferior…

Early Findings on Ziftomenib With Chemotherapy in AML From KOMET-007 Trial

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Ziftomenib plus standard cytarabine and daunorubicin chemotherapy was well tolerated with consistent safety and continued to show “robust clinical activity” in patients newly diagnosed with NPM1-mutated (NPM1-m) or KMT2A-rearranged (KMT2A-r) acute myeloid leukemia (AML)…

State of the Art Treatment in Myelodysplastic Syndromes

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Presenter: Mikkael Sekeres Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Hematology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Miami, FL, USA Release Date: December 20, 2024 Congress: ASH 2024 Area: Hematology Description: Mikkael A. Sekeres…

Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for the Treatment of Severe Aplastic Anemia: Evidence-Based Guidelines From the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

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Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is a potentially curative treatment for severe aplastic anemia (SAA). Existing guidance about HCT in SAA is primarily derived from expert reviews, registry data and societal guidelines; however, transplant-specific guidelines…

Therapy for acute myeloid leukemia in older and unfit adults

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TITLE Azacitidine and venetoclax in previously untreated acute myeloid leukemia. AUTHORS DiNardo CD, Jonas BA, Pullarkat V, et al. JOURNAL The New England Journal of Medicine. 2020;383:617-629. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2012971. The therapy of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has…

Can JAK inhibition prevent GVHD?

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In this issue of Blood, Pidala et al report on the results of a multicenter phase 2 trial, in which a graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prevention regimen of pacritinib, an oral JAK2 inhibitor, in combination with sirolimus and tacrolimus successfully suppressed pSTAT3 signaling…

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