2024
Sustained benefits of imetelstat on patient-reported fatigue in patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes ineligible for, or relapsed/refractory to, erythropoiesis-stimulating agents and high transfusion burden in the phase 3 IMerge study
Sekeres M, Santini V, Díez-Campelo M, Komrokji R, Fenaux P, Savona M, Madanat Y, Valcárcel-Ferreiras D, Oliva E, Regnault A, Creel K, Sengupta N, Dougherty S, Shah S, Sun L, Wan Y, Navada S, Zeidan A, Platzbecker U. Sustained benefits of imetelstat on patient-reported fatigue in patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes ineligible for, or relapsed/refractory to, erythropoiesis-stimulating agents and high transfusion burden in the phase 3 IMerge study. Leukemia & Lymphoma 2024, ahead-of-print: 1-6. PMID: 39535901, DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2024.2426057.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
Improvement of Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Heavily Pretreated Patients with Lower-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes and High Transfusion Burden Treated with Imetelstat on the IMerge Phase 3 Trial
Sekeres M, Diez-Campelo M, Zeidan A, Platzbecker U, Regnault A, Creel K, Sengupta N, Wan Y, Sun L, Xia Q, Berry T, Dougherty S, Shah S, Navada S, Santini V, Valcárcel D. Improvement of Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Heavily Pretreated Patients with Lower-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes and High Transfusion Burden Treated with Imetelstat on the IMerge Phase 3 Trial. Blood 2023, 142: 6479. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2023-181103.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLower-risk myelodysplastic syndromesPatient-reported outcomesHigh transfusion burdenTransfusion burdenPlacebo groupMyelodysplastic syndromeTreatment groupsFunctional assessmentCancer Therapy-AnemiaPatient-reported fatigueTransfusion independence rateChronic Illness TherapyPhase 3 trialInferior overall survivalTransfusion-dependent anemiaLeast square meansImprovement of patientsPRO end pointsComposite scorePositive mean changesQuality of lifeFACT-AnTreat populationDyspnea scoreOverall survival