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Wide Variation in Use and Interpretation of Gene Mutation Profiling Panels Among Health Care Providers of Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndromes: Results of a Large Web-Based Survey

Author(s): 
Alexander B Pine, Nora Chokr, Maximilian Stahl, David P Steensma, Mikkael A Sekeres, Mark R Litzow, Selina M Luger, Richard M Stone, Peter L Greenberg, Rafael Bejar, Jan P Bewersdorf, Steven D Gore, Amer M Zeidan
Primary Author: 
Alexander B Pine
Journal Title: 
Leukemia & Lymphoma
Original Publication Date: 
Jun 2020

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is increasingly employed for diagnosis, risk stratification, and management of patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). We aimed to describe beliefs and practice patterns among providers who treat MDS patients with respect to the utility of NGS in diagnosis, risk stratification, prognosis, and treatment decisions at various points along the disease trajectory, response assessment, and development of institutional guidelines for MDS-specific molecular profiling.

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Venetoclax and Hypomethylating Agents (HMAs) Induce High Response Rates in MDS, Including Patients After HMA Therapy Failure

Author(s): 
Brian J Ball, Christopher A Famulare, Eytan M Stein, Martin S Tallman, Andriy Derkach, Mikhail Roshal, Saar I Gill, Benjamin M Manning
Primary Author: 
Brian J Ball
Journal Title: 
Blood Advances
Original Publication Date: 
Jul 2020

Hypomethylating agents (HMAs) are the current standard of care in high-risk

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Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: Inflammation Drives MDS

Author(s): 
Gandhar K Datar, Margaret A Goodell
Primary Author: 
Gandhar K Datar
Journal Title: 
Trends in immunology
Original Publication Date: 
Jul 2020

Chronic inflammation has been implicated in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS); however, its role in disease progression is unclear. In a new study by Muto et al., MDS

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Characterization of Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) With T-cell Large Granular Lymphocyte Proliferations (LGL)

Author(s): 
Rami S Komrokji, Najla Al Ali, David Sallman, Eric Padron, Jeffrey Lancet, Lubomir Sokol, Christa Varnadoe, P K Burnette, Alan List
Primary Author: 
Rami S Komrokji
Journal Title: 
Leukemia
Original Publication Date: 
Jun 2020
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Immunomodulation With Pomalidomide at Early Lymphocyte Recovery After Induction Chemotherapy in Newly Diagnosed AML and High-Risk MDS

Author(s): 
Joshua F Zeidner, Hanna A Knaus, Amer M Zeidan, Amanda L Blackford, Raul Montiel-Esparza, Hubert Hackl, Gabrielle T Prince, Lukasz P Gondek, Gabriel Ghiaur, Margaret M Showel, Amy E DeZern, Keith W Pratz, B Douglas Smith
Primary Author: 
Joshua F Zeidner
Journal Title: 
Leukemia
Original Publication Date: 
Jun 2020

An immunosuppressive microenvironment promoting leukemia cell immune escape plays an important role in the pathogenesis of AML. Through its interaction with cereblon, a substrate receptor for the E3 ubiquitin ligase complex, pomalidomide leads to selective ubiquitination of transcription factors Aiolos and Ikaros thereby promoting immune modulation.

MDS/MPN-RS-T Justified Inclusion as a Unique Disease Entity?

Author(s): 
Guillermo Montalban-Bravo, Guillermo Garcia-Manero
Primary Author: 
Guillermo Montalban-Bravo
Journal Title: 
Best practice & research. Clinical haematology
Original Publication Date: 
Jun 2020

Myelodysplastic syndrome/myeloproliferative neoplasm with ring sideroblasts and thrombocytosis (MDS/MPN-RS-T) is a disease entity characterized by anemia,

Therapy-related Myelodysplastic Syndromes Deserve Specific Diagnostic Sub-Classification and Risk-Stratification-An Approach to Classification of Patients With t-MDS

Author(s): 
A Kuendgen, M Nomdedeu, H Tuechler, G Garcia-Manero, R S Komrokji, M A Sekeres, M G Della Porta, M Cazzola, A E DeZern, G J Roboz, D P Steensma, A A Van de Loosdrecht, R F Schlenk, J Grau, X Calvo, S Blum
Primary Author: 
A Kuendgen
Journal Title: 
Leukemia
Original Publication Date: 
Jun 2020

In the current World Health Organization (WHO)-classification, therapy-related

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Cyclosporine Enhances the Sensitivity to Lenalidomide in MDS/AML in Vitro

Author(s): 
Xiaofei He, Aixia Dou, Saran Feng, Ashley Roman-Rivera, Caleb Hawkins, Lauren Lawley, Jiajia Zhang, Mark Wunderlich, Benjamin Mizukawa, Stephanie Halene, Amisha Patel, Jing Fang
Primary Author: 
Xiaofei He
Journal Title: 
Experimental Hematology
Original Publication Date: 
Jun 2020

Our previous study revealed that expression of G protein-coupled receptor 68 (GPR68) was upregulated in MDSL cells, a cell line representing