News and Treatment Updates

Here's where you'll find a regularly updated, broad range of articles written by the AAMDSIF team, allied health organizations and news organizations. By staying well-informed, patients and families are practicing a form of self-support that will help them be more effective self-advocates when engaging with health care providers.

Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide-Based Graft-Versus-Host Disease Prophylaxis After Mismatched Unrelated Donor Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation

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Abstract Purpose Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a curative treatment for advanced hematologic malignancies. HSCT using human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-mismatched donors is historically associated with inferior survival. Patients from underrepresented…

Cyclosporin/Cyclophosphamide Is a Potential New SOC in GVHD Management

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Cyclophosphamide plus cyclosporin, a calcineurin inhibitor, significantly improved graft-vs-host disease (GVHD)–free relapse-free survival (RFS) compared with standard prophylaxis in patients with aggressive blood cancers who are undergoing stem cell transplant from a matched…

Iptacopan Yields Meaningful Hemoglobin Improvements in Pretreated PNH Group

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Data from APPULSE-PNH may support oral iptacopan as a potentially practice-changing option in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. "Results from APPULSE-PNH and previous trials establish oral iptacopan monotherapy as a potentially practice-changing treatment capable…

Very long-term remission with azacitidine in VEXAS syndrome

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VEXAS (vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic) syndrome is a newly identified monogenic disorder with symptoms including recurrent fever, skin involvement, pulmonary infiltrates, systemic vasculitis, and chondritis. 1 Notably, 25-50% of patients also have…

Pre-transplant inflammation and its associations with acute GvHD and mortality in pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients

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Abstract In this explorative study we aimed to identify inflammatory serum proteins measured before allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) that are associated with acute Graft-versus-Host Disease (aGvHD) and mortality in pediatric HSCT recipients. We measured…

Donor regulatory T-cell therapy to prevent graft-versus-host disease

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Key Points Treg-engineered donor graft prevents acute and chronic GVHD. Patients treated with Treg-engineered graft who develop GVHD respond to primary corticosteroid therapy at a high rate. Abstract Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation is a curative therapy limited by…

Taking Charge of My Care and Advocacy Following a Cancer Diagnosis

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After a long battle with illness and seeking many specialists, I emphasize the need to self-advocate for ongoing care following my cancer diagnosis. Almost every cancer survivor will agree that we end up going to too many doctors. A friend of mine with both cancer and diabetes…

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