ALLMedicine™ Acute Myeloid Leukemia Center

Mar 22nd, 2023 - Venetoclax combined with a hypomethylating agent (HMA) has become the standard of care for elderly/unfit patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This study is aimed at characterizing the impact of an interdisciplinary team on t...

Mar 22nd, 2023 - Hyperleukocytosis in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has been associated with worse outcomes. For cytoreduction, leukapheresis has been used but its clinical utility is unknown, and low-dose cytarabine (LD-cytarabine) is used as an alte...

Mar 22nd, 2023 - Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common hematopoietic malignancy with abnormal lipid metabolism. However, currently available information on the involvement of the alterations in lipid metabolism in AML development is limited. In this stud...

Mar 22nd, 2023 - The receptor tyrosine kinase KIT and its ligand stem cell factor (SCF) are required for the development of hematopoietic stem cells, germ cells, and other cells. A variety of human cancers, such as acute myeloid leukemia, gastrointestinal stromal ...

Mar 21st, 2023 - The European LeukaemiaNet (ELN) measurable residual disease (MRD) working group have published consensus guidelines to standardise molecular genetic MRD testing of the t(8;21)(q22;q22.1) RUNX1::RUNX1T1, inv(16)(p13.1q22) CBFB::MYH11, t(15;17)(q24....

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...

Mar 10th, 2023 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine the rate of complete remission and mortality at 90 days in the entire cohort of older patients (>= 60 years) with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who receive clinicogenetic risk-stratified therapy a...

Mar 10th, 2023 - JZP025-101 is an open-label, multicenter, multi-arm, nonrandomized phase 1b master trial to determine the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) of CPX-351 when administered in combination with various targeted agents in previously untreated subjects wit...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Myelofibrosis (MF) is a clonal disorder of the pluripotent hematopoietic stem cell in which the abnormal stem cell population releases several cytokines and growth factors into the bone marrow microenvironment, it is pathologically characterized b...

Mar 10th, 2023 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. To compare the 1-year cumulative incidence of severe Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) (from day of HCT) defined as grade III-IV acute GVHD (aGVHD) and/or chronic GVHD (cGVHD) that requires systemic immunosuppression and to co...

Mar 10th, 2023 - The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of mocravimod as an adjunctive and maintenance treatment in adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT).

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 20th, 2023 - Maternal genitourinary tract infections during pregnancy were linked to the development of leukemia in offspring, a Danish nationwide study found. Children born to a mother who experienced any kind of infection during pregnancy had increased risk ...

Feb 8th, 2023 - Members of the United States military who served in Vietnam between 1961 and 1971 risked exposure to the weaponized chemical defoliant known as Agent Orange. Among the components of Agent Orange, benzene and tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) are.

Jan 27th, 2023 - The FDA announced that the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) will meet March 9 to review the accelerated approval of polatuzumab vedotin (Polivy) plus rituximab (Rituxan) and chemotherapy for untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Jansse...

Jan 13th, 2023 - A California study showed a concerning increase in cervical cancer mortality among women 65 or older, the age at which routine screening is no longer recommended. (UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention)...