2024
Inequalities in Treatment Utilization Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries with Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia Who Are Ineligible for Induction Therapy
Zeidan A, Xu Y, Kapustyan T, Miu K, Chen C, Kamalakar R, Lin C, Ma E, Montez M, Wu Z, Yee T, Sun H, Rava A, Kim S, Huntington S. Inequalities in Treatment Utilization Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries with Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia Who Are Ineligible for Induction Therapy. Blood 2024, 144: 3795-3795. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2024-200213.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTime to treatment initiationND-AMLAssociated with lower oddsAcute myeloid leukemiaAML treatmentVEN-HMACharlson Comorbidity IndexTargeted therapyInduction therapyFemale patientsMyeloid leukemiaTreatment initiationShorter time to treatment initiationTherapy uptakeMedicare beneficiariesNewly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemiaLower oddsOdds ratioHematopoietic stem cell transplantationTime-to-treatment initiationDiagnosed acute myeloid leukemiaIn-hospital survival rateLow-dose chemotherapyClinical performance statusStem cell transplantationHypomethylating agents plus venetoclax compared with intensive induction chemotherapy regimens in molecularly defined secondary AML
Shimony S, Bewersdorf J, Shallis R, Liu Y, Schaefer E, Zeidan A, Goldberg A, Stein E, Marcucci G, Lindsley R, Chen E, Ramos Perez J, Stein A, DeAngelo D, Neuberg D, Stone R, Ball B, Stahl M. Hypomethylating agents plus venetoclax compared with intensive induction chemotherapy regimens in molecularly defined secondary AML. Leukemia 2024, 38: 762-768. PMID: 38378841, DOI: 10.1038/s41375-024-02175-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAssociated with improved OSHypomethylating agentsCPX-351Overall survivalSplicing factor mutationsCo-mutationsAllogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantationAssociated with better OSAssociated with worse OSSecondary acute myeloid leukemiaHematopoietic stem cell transplantationMedian overall survivalStem cell transplantationPatients aged >Acute myeloid leukemiaTreated with daunorubicinLiposomal daunorubicinMonosomal karyotypeNRAS/KRAS mutationsImproved OSSecondary AMLMyeloid diseasesMyeloid neoplasmsAML patientsAML treatment
2023
An overview of novel therapies in advanced clinical testing for acute myeloid leukemia
Venugopal S, Xie Z, Zeidan A. An overview of novel therapies in advanced clinical testing for acute myeloid leukemia. Expert Review Of Hematology 2023, 16: 109-119. PMID: 36718500, DOI: 10.1080/17474086.2023.2174521.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsAML therapyMolecular pathogenesisApproval of midostaurinPathophysiology of AMLMeasurable residual diseaseAdvanced clinical testingClinical trial developmentAcute myeloid leukemiaCell surface antigensDevelopment of agentsDisease relapseImmune environmentAML treatmentResidual diseaseTherapeutic armamentariumMyeloid leukemiaNovel therapiesSurface antigenClinical testingTrial developmentTherapyAMLEscape mechanismsGene mutationsRelapse