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Aprea Therapeutics Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Eprenetapopt for the Treatment of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

BOSTON, April 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aprea Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: APRE), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel cancer therapeutics that reactivate the mutant tumor suppressor protein, p53, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted

Pack your Bags and Head to the Hospital - Hailey's Story

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Hailey Texeira

“You will need to pack your bags and head to Children’s Hospital, we think it’s leukemia.”

Only a few days after a Complete Blood Count, Christy, Hailey's mom, heard these words from Hailey’s doctor. Hailey had just started kindergarten.

At summer dance camp, Hailey won the award for “Most Tired.” That puzzled her mom. As kindergarten progressed, Christy noticed the fatigue. She assumed that kindergarten must be exhausting for children. Christmas was approaching when she noticed Hailey’s bruises, in odd places on her body.

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Hereditary MDS

Lucy Godley, MD, PhD, (UChicago Medicine) discusses the connection between heredity and MDS. While MDS is most often not inherited, there are some genetic mutations and other genetic conditions that can lead to a diagnosis of MDS.

Clinical and molecular predictors of response and survival following venetoclax therapy in relapsed/refractory AML

Key Points
In patients with RR-AML, venetoclax combination therapy resulted in responses in 31% of patients and a median OS of 6.1 months.

NPM1 mutations predicted higher response rates; adverse cytogenetics and mutations in TP53, KRAS/NRAS, and SF3B1 predicted worse OS.