{"title":"Toward Equitable Risk Classification for All Patients with T-ALL.","authors":"Adam J de Smith","doi":"10.1158/2643-3230.BCD-25-0221","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this issue of Blood Cancer Discovery, Newman and colleagues investigated the impact of genetic ancestry on molecular subtypes, genomic alterations, and survival outcomes in a diverse cohort of patients with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. They demonstrated that the prognostic utility of genomic alterations varied by ancestry, in particular, with NOTCH1 mutations having no prognostic utility in patients of predominantly African ancestry, and their findings highlight the importance of considering genetic ancestry in the risk stratification of patients with T-ALL. See related article by Newman et al., p. 412.</p>","PeriodicalId":29944,"journal":{"name":"Blood Cancer Discovery","volume":" ","pages":"400-402"},"PeriodicalIF":11.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12405836/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Blood Cancer Discovery","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1158/2643-3230.BCD-25-0221","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HEMATOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this issue of Blood Cancer Discovery, Newman and colleagues investigated the impact of genetic ancestry on molecular subtypes, genomic alterations, and survival outcomes in a diverse cohort of patients with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. They demonstrated that the prognostic utility of genomic alterations varied by ancestry, in particular, with NOTCH1 mutations having no prognostic utility in patients of predominantly African ancestry, and their findings highlight the importance of considering genetic ancestry in the risk stratification of patients with T-ALL. See related article by Newman et al., p. 412.
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The journal Blood Cancer Discovery publishes high-quality Research Articles and Briefs that focus on major advances in basic, translational, and clinical research of leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, and associated diseases. The topics covered include molecular and cellular features of pathogenesis, therapy response and relapse, transcriptional circuits, stem cells, differentiation, microenvironment, metabolism, immunity, mutagenesis, and clonal evolution. These subjects are investigated in both animal disease models and high-dimensional clinical data landscapes.
The journal also welcomes submissions on new pharmacological, biological, and living cell therapies, as well as new diagnostic tools. They are interested in prognostic, diagnostic, and pharmacodynamic biomarkers, and computational and machine learning approaches to personalized medicine. The scope of submissions ranges from preclinical proof of concept to clinical trials and real-world evidence.
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