ALLMedicine™ Acute Myeloid Leukemia Center

Aug 10th, 2022 - DNMT3A mutations confer a poor prognosis in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), but the molecular mechanisms downstream of DNMT3A mutations in disease pathogenesis are not completely understood, limiting targeted therapeutic options. The role of microRN...

Aug 10th, 2022 - In a retrospective analysis, 21 acute myeloid leukemia patients receiving single-agent sorafenib maintenance therapy in complete remission (CR) after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) were compared with a control group of 22 patients ...

Aug 10th, 2022 - Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive disease with a low 5-year overall survival rate of 29.5%. Thus, more effective therapies are in need to prolong survival of AML patients. Mcl-1 is overexpressed in AML and is associated with poor progn...

Aug 9th, 2022 - Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer that originates from the bone marrow (BM). Under physiological conditions, the bone marrow supports the homeostasis of immune cells and hosts memory lymphoid cells. In this review, we summarize our present ...

Aug 9th, 2022 - Clinical recommendations for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) classification and risk-stratification remain heavily reliant on cytogenetic findings at diagnosis, which are present in <50% of patients. Using comprehensive molecular profiling data from ...

Jan 7th, 2021 - The NCCN Guidelines for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) provide recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of adults with AML based on clinical trials that have led to significant improvements in treatment, or have yielded new information regard...

Sep 24th, 2020 - The role of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in the management of newly diagnosed adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is reviewed and critically evaluated in this evidence-based review. An AML expert panel, consisting of both transplant and...

May 28th, 2020 - To develop a clinical practice guideline for systemic antifungal prophylaxis in pediatric patients with cancer and hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) recipients. Recommendations were developed by an international multidisciplinary pane...

Oct 7th, 2017 - Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are a group of heterogeneous disorders of the hematopoietic system that include myelofibrosis (MF), polycythemia vera (PV), and essential thrombocythemia (ET). PV and ET are characterized by significant thromboh...

Jul 9th, 2017 - Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common form of acute leukemia among adults and accounts for the largest number of annual deaths due to leukemias in the United States. This portion of the NCCN Guidelines for AML focuses on management and p...

Aug 5th, 2022 - Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a rare subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) characterized by consistent clinical, morphologic, and genetic features. According to the FAB classification APL is designated as"M3 leukemia" and assigned to the...

Aug 5th, 2022 - This study will look at: any side effects that occur, the effectiveness of the study drug, and how your disease reacts to ciprofloxacin in combination with etoposide. This study will try to find the highest tolerated dose of ciprofloxacin without ...

Aug 5th, 2022 - Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT) can cure patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). However, relapsed AML/MDS is the most significant single cause of treatment failure, and the major...

Aug 5th, 2022 - The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the safety of lanraplenib (LANRA) in combination with the FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) inhibitor gilteritinib, in participants with relapsed or refractory (R/R) FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leu...

Aug 5th, 2022 - The main objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of venetoclax in combination with azacitidine to improve Relapse Free Survival (RFS) in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) participants compared to Best Supportive Care (BSC) when given as mai...

Jul 20th, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Gail J. Roboz, MD: My name is Dr Gail Roboz. I'm a professor of medicine and director of the leukemia program at Weill Cornell Medicine and the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. It is my t...

Jul 12th, 2022 - The study covered in this summary was published on researchsquare.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaway Low serum albumin is significantly associated with 60-day mortality in primary acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Why T...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - The study was published on researchsquare.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaway Regarding consolidation therapy for younger patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), there was no survival benefit from taking high-dos...

Jun 16th, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Gail J. Roboz, MD: Hi, everyone. My name is Dr Gail Roboz, I'm a professor of medicine. I run the leukemia program at Weill Cornell Medicine at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. It is ...

Jun 13th, 2022 - The potent oral FLT3 inhibitor quizartinib more than doubled overall survival among patients newly diagnosed with FLT3-ITD-positive acute myeloid leukemia (AML) compared with standard chemotherapy, new phase 3 data show. Among adults who received ...