ALLMedicine™ Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Center

Mar 28th, 2023 - IKZF1 gene deletion is an indicator of poor prognosis in childhood B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BCP-ALL). The AEIOP/BFM group proposed that the prognostic strength of IKZF1 deletion could be remarkably improved by taking into acc...

Mar 26th, 2023 - In adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), post-transplant relapse is a major risk factor for mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). Our study investigated the efficacy and safety of decitabine (dec...

Mar 26th, 2023 - Previous studies had explored the diagnostic or prognostic value of NRP-1/CD304 in blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), whereas the expression and appl...

Mar 26th, 2023 - High hyperdiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia (HeH ALL), one of the most common childhood malignancies, is driven by nonrandom aneuploidy (abnormal chromosome numbers) mainly comprising chromosomal gains. In this study, we investigate how aneuplo...

Mar 25th, 2023 - Mixed-phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) is a rare disease. Treatment is often similar to that of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), but the outcome in adults and the role of allogeneic stem cell transplantation (AlloSCT) are not well defined. We re...

Dec 20th, 2021 - Several commercial and academic autologous chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) products targeting CD19 have been approved in Europe for relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, high-grade B-cell lymphoma and mantle cell lympho...

Jan 8th, 2020 - Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common pediatric malignancy. Advancements in technology that enhance our understanding of the biology of the disease, risk-adapted therapy, and enhanced supportive care have contributed to improved su...

Sep 7th, 2017 - The prognosis for patients with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has improved with the use of more intensive chemotherapy regimens, tyrosine kinase inhibitors, targeted agents, and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. H...

Feb 23rd, 2017 - - A complete diagnosis of acute leukemia requires knowledge of clinical information combined with morphologic evaluation, immunophenotyping and karyotype analysis, and often, molecular genetic testing. Although many aspects of the workup for acute...

Jul 10th, 2012 - The inaugural NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were developed as a result of meetings convened by a multi-disciplinary panel of experts in 2011. These NCCN Guidelines provide re...

Mar 24th, 2023 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To provide a risk classification scheme for all patients with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), which will be used to assign treatment on Children?s Oncology Group (COG) frontline ALL treatment studies. II....

Mar 24th, 2023 - The study aims to evaluate the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of subcutaneous (SC) blinatumomab for treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) and to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), and preliminary recommended phase 2 dose(s) ...

Mar 22nd, 2023 - Bridging therapy could be administered at the discretion of the investigator and is recommended for participants with high disease burden at baseline (M3 marrow [> 25% leukemic blasts] or ≥ 1,000 blasts/mm^3 in the peripheral circulation) to contr...

Mar 21st, 2023 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. To compare the overall survival (OS) following induction with steroids + TKI + blinatumomab versus induction with steroids + TKI + chemotherapy. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To compare the rate of minimal residual disease (MRD) n...

Mar 17th, 2023 - SJCAR19 is a Phase I/II clinical trial evaluating the use of SJCAR19 (CD19- specific CAR engineered autologous T-cells) in pediatric, adolescent and young adult patients with relapsed/ refractory CD19+ ALL. Treatment will include a single treatmen...

Mar 16th, 2023 - Lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan (Pluvicto) is currently in shortage, according to the FDA, leaving some prostate cancer patients with limited options; the drug's manufacturer Novartis said it's working to increase production. Meanwhile, the ...

Mar 9th, 2023 - How the successful use of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for former President Jimmy Carter's metastatic melanoma put "immunotherapy on the map." (Washington Post) A study of molecular changes observed in the breast tissue of transgender men undergoing a...

Feb 16th, 2023 - In the first randomized comparison of targeted agents for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), ponatinib (Iclusig) prevailed over imatinib for untreated Philadelphia chromosome-positive (Ph+) cases. More than twice as many patients treated with pon...

Feb 1st, 2023 - While survival outcomes for children and young adults with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) have improved significantly over the last several decades, substantial differences in outcomes by race and ethnicity continue to persist, a secondary analy...

Dec 20th, 2022 - NEW ORLEANS – The immunotherapy drug blinatumomab improves survival as a first-line treatment in certain younger adult patients with B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia, investigators have found. The extremely expensive drug is currently Food a.