{"title":"Rethinking the feasibility and safety of venetoclax-obinutuzumab in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: non-traditional factors may play a role in clinical practice.","authors":"Anna Maria Frustaci,Andrea Galitzia,Mariano Lucignano,Lorena Appio,Jacopo Olivieri,Alessandro Sanna,Claudia Baraté,Fabrizio Pane,Luana Schiattone,Beatrice Casadei,Isacco Ferrarini,Amalia Figuera,Paolo Sportoletti,Giacomo Loseto,Caterina Stelitano,Andrea Visentin,Melania Celli,Francesca Romana Mauro,Massimiliano Palombi,Marta Coscia,Vanessa Innao,Riccardo Moia,Marina Motta,Filomena Russo,Monica Tani,Annalisa Arcari,Elia Boccellato,Chiara Borella,Enrico Capochiani,Angela Ferrari,Massimo Gentile,Roberta Giachetti,Annamaria Giordano,Martina Bullo,Enrico Lista,Luigi Malandruccolo,Maurizio Musso,Marzia Varettoni,Federico Vozella,Francesca Cibien,Michele Merli,Laura Nocilli,Maria Cristina Pasquini,Azzurra Anna Romeo,Valentina Rossi,Gloria Turri,Anna Vanazzi,Marina Cavaliere,Alessandro Gozzetti,Lara Crucitti,Moira Lucesole,Marina Deodato,Annamaria Tomasso,Arianna Zappaterra,Roberta Murru,Caterina Patti,Luca Laurenti,Alessandra Tedeschi","doi":"10.3324/haematol.2025.287799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2025.287799","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of fitness for novel agents in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) remains debated. Comorbidities and treatment-related logistics are increasingly recognized as key factors in treatment feasibility. Venetoclax-obinutuzumab (VO) has demonstrated efficacy in both fit and unfit patients in clinical trials, yet real-world data remain limited. This retrospective, multicenter study analyzed disease- and patient-related factors affecting VO management and outcomes in 271 patients. Fitness was assessed using comorbidity indices (CLL-CI, CIRS, CCI), ECOG-PS, and caregiver need. Adverse events (AEs) and treatment modifications were evaluated across four treatment phases. Median age was 66 years (19% ≥75); 83% had comorbidities, 34% required polypharmacy, and 10% needed caregiver support. Overall, 96% completed debulking, 89% the full regimen, while 11% discontinued due to toxicity (Tox-DTD). Grade ≥3 AEs occurred in 55%, tumor lysis syndrome in 6%, severe infusion-related reactions in 5%. Overall, 3.3% died during treatment. Unfit patients did not show a significantly higher risk of treatment modifications due to AEs. Dose adjustments were more frequent during debulking. None of the validated fitness scores predicted treatment feasibility or Tox-DTD. Global feasibility was impacted by age (p .002), prior malignancies (p .003), prolonged steroid pre-treatment (p.","PeriodicalId":12964,"journal":{"name":"Haematologica","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144488209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Randomized trial of anti-thymocyte globulin plus low-dose post-transplant cyclophosphamide to prevent graft-versus-host disease in haploidentical transplantation.","authors":"Zheng-Li Xu,Ting-Ting Han,Xiao-Lu Zhu,Jing Liu,Meng Lv,Yu-Qian Sun,Xiao-Dong Mo,Yi-Fei Cheng,Lan-Ping Xu,Xiao-Hui Zhang,Xiao-Jun Huang,Yu Wang","doi":"10.3324/haematol.2025.287504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2025.287504","url":null,"abstract":"The combination of anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) and posttransplant cyclophosphamide (PTCy) appears to be a potentially effective graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prevention strategy for haploidentical transplantation. However, the majority of the evidence originated from retrospective studies without uniform protocols. Our previous findings indicated that 10 mg/kg ATG plus low-dose PTCy could decrease GVHD among high-risk populations transplanted from maternal or collateral relatives. We designed an open-label, phase III, randomized controlled trial to compare patients receiving granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)/ATG-based haploidentical transplantation with or without low-dose PTCy (14.5 mg/kg on days 3 and 4) in nonmaternal, noncollateral haploidentical transplants from fathers, children or siblings. A total of 66 patients were randomly assigned to ATG-PTCy (n=44) or ATG (n=22) when the first interim analysis was performed. The interim analysis revealed that the 100-day cumulative incidences (CI) of grade II-IV (18.2% [95% CI 6.6-29.7] vs. 18.2% [1.7-34.7]; P = 0.996) and III-IV acute GVHD (2.3% [95% CI 0-6.7] vs. 0; P = 0.480) were comparable between the ATG-PTCy and ATG cohorts, as was chronic GvHD at 1 year. The estimated 1-year disease free survival (DFS) rates were also similar between ATG-PTCy and ATG cohorts (95.5% [95% CI 89.5-100] vs. 95.2% [86.6-100]; P = 0.979). These results suggested that ATG/PTCy (low-dose) had no advantage over 10 mg/kg ATG-based prophylaxis in patients with haploidentical transplantation other than that of maternal donors or collateral relatives. Future work needs to focus on identifying which populations might benefit from the combined strategy in the context of G-CSF/ATG-based protocols.","PeriodicalId":12964,"journal":{"name":"Haematologica","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144319804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HaematologicaPub Date : 2025-06-19DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2025.287352
Kellen B Gil, Jamie Borg, Rosana Moreira Pereira, Anagha Inguva-Sheth, Geovana Araujo, Jeremy Rahkola, William Showers, Abby Grier, Angelo D'Alessandro, Clayton Smith, Christine McMahon, Daniel A Pollyea, Austin E Gillen, Maria L Amaya
{"title":"The STAT3-VDAC1 axis modulates mitochondrial function and plays a critical role in the survival of acute myeloid leukemia cells.","authors":"Kellen B Gil, Jamie Borg, Rosana Moreira Pereira, Anagha Inguva-Sheth, Geovana Araujo, Jeremy Rahkola, William Showers, Abby Grier, Angelo D'Alessandro, Clayton Smith, Christine McMahon, Daniel A Pollyea, Austin E Gillen, Maria L Amaya","doi":"10.3324/haematol.2025.287352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2025.287352","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is a well-described transcription factor that mediates oxidative phosphorylation and glutamine uptake in bulk acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells and leukemic stem cells (LSCs). STAT3 has also been shown to translocate to the mitochondria in AML cells, and phosphorylation at the serine 727 (pSTAT3 S727) residue has been shown to be especially important for STAT3's mitochondrial functions. We demonstrate that inhibition of STAT3 results in impaired mitochondrial function and decreased leukemia cell viability. We discovered a novel interaction of STAT3 with voltage-dependent anion channel 1 (VDAC1) in the mitochondria which provides a mechanism through which STAT3 modulates mitochondrial function and cell survival. Through VDAC1, STAT3 regulates calcium and oxidative phosphorylation in the mitochondria. STAT3 and VDAC1 inhibition also result in significantly reduced engraftment potential of LSCs, including primary samples resistant to venetoclax. These results implicate STAT3 as a therapeutic target in AML.</p>","PeriodicalId":12964,"journal":{"name":"Haematologica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144325486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HaematologicaPub Date : 2025-06-19DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2025.288145
Suheil Albert Atallah-Yunes,Matthew J Rees,Thomas M Habermann,Yucai Wang,Javier Munoz,Madiha Iqbal,Jose C Villasboas,Ellen D McPhail,Thomas E Witzig,Stephen M Ansell,Grzegorz S Nowakowski
{"title":"Treatment approaches and clinical outcomes in primary colorectal MALT lymphoma: a single institution retrospective study of 66 patients.","authors":"Suheil Albert Atallah-Yunes,Matthew J Rees,Thomas M Habermann,Yucai Wang,Javier Munoz,Madiha Iqbal,Jose C Villasboas,Ellen D McPhail,Thomas E Witzig,Stephen M Ansell,Grzegorz S Nowakowski","doi":"10.3324/haematol.2025.288145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2025.288145","url":null,"abstract":"Not available.","PeriodicalId":12964,"journal":{"name":"Haematologica","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144320293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TET2 mutation does not impact the prognosis of adult acute myeloid leukemia patients receiving a hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in first remission: similar outcome following matched sibling and unrelated versus haploidentical donor transplants in a multi-center retrospective analysis from the Global Committee and the Acute Leukemia Working Party of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation.","authors":"Lin Li,Yishan Ye,Jacques-Emmanuel Galimard,Myriam Labopin,Depei Wu,Jia Chen,Nicolaus Kröger,Jakob Passweg,Urpu Salmenniemi,Maija Itäla-Remes,Xavier Poiré,Matthias Eder,Johan Maertens,David Burns,Henrik Sengeloev,Gitte Olesen,Didier Blaise,Jürgen Finke,Alain Gadisseur,Ali Bazarbachi,Eolia Brissot,Arnon Nagler,Yi Luo,Jimin Shi,Mohamad Mohty,He Huang,Fabio Ciceri,Norbert Claude Gorin","doi":"10.3324/haematol.2025.287326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2025.287326","url":null,"abstract":"Not available.","PeriodicalId":12964,"journal":{"name":"Haematologica","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144319806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HaematologicaPub Date : 2025-06-19DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2025.287434
Lilli S Sester,Paolo Milani,Fenia Theodorakakou,Tobias Dittrich,Jörg Beimler,Fabian Aus dem Siepen,Martin Zeier,Marc-Steffen Raab,Carsten Müller-Tidow,Efstathios Kastritis,Giovanni Palladini,Ute Hegenbart,Stefan O Schönland
{"title":"Characterization, outcome and identification of prognostic factors for patients with systemic immunoglobulin light-chain amyloidosis requiring dialysis prior to initial anti-clonal therapy.","authors":"Lilli S Sester,Paolo Milani,Fenia Theodorakakou,Tobias Dittrich,Jörg Beimler,Fabian Aus dem Siepen,Martin Zeier,Marc-Steffen Raab,Carsten Müller-Tidow,Efstathios Kastritis,Giovanni Palladini,Ute Hegenbart,Stefan O Schönland","doi":"10.3324/haematol.2025.287434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2025.287434","url":null,"abstract":"AL amyloidosis is a serious disease characterized by the deposition of immunoglobulin light chains in multiple organs. Renal involvement occurs in up to 70% of patients, but only a minority require dialysis before initiating anti-clonal treatment. Understanding the occurrence of end-stage organ damage is crucial to pave the way for reversing deposition. Currently, there is no detailed analysis available for this rare patient subgroup. We conducted a systematic search across three amyloidosis centers and characterized 68 biopsy-proven AL amyloidosis patients who required dialysis prior to initial anti-clonal therapy. In our cohort the second most affected organ was the heart. Renal parameters exhibited variability. Residual urine output and proteinuria ranged widely, while anuria had developed in only a few patients. Among the treated patients, 84% received Bortezomib as first-line therapy. The median overall survival (OS) was 44.8 months, with a median event-free survival (EFS) of 16.8 months. Our univariate statistical analysis revealed that underlying clonal disease, indicated by plasma cell infiltration, but not dFLC, impacted OS. Importantly, higher levels of troponins were associated with worse OS, confirmed by multivariate analysis, whereas NTproBNP levels and classical echocardiographic parameters such as septal thickness and longitudinal strain did not demonstrate significant prognostic value. This study provides crucial insights into this unique cohort of dialysis-dependent AL amyloidosis patients. The underlying clonal disease and markers of cardiac damage are important prognostic criteria. These findings emphasize the need to refine prognostic scoring systems for dialysis-dependent AL amyloidosis patients to better stratify risk and optimize treatment approaches.","PeriodicalId":12964,"journal":{"name":"Haematologica","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144320292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HaematologicaPub Date : 2025-06-19DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2025.288008
Jorge A Palacios,Mónica Bernal,Jose R Vílchez,Pilar Garrido,Pilar Jiménez,Juan F Gutiérrez-Bautista,María C Barrera-Aguilera,Lucía Ballesta,Teresa Rodríguez,María J Olivares-Durán,Francisco Ruiz-Cabello
{"title":"Optical genome mapping reveals complex cytogenetic abnormalities in multiple myeloma.","authors":"Jorge A Palacios,Mónica Bernal,Jose R Vílchez,Pilar Garrido,Pilar Jiménez,Juan F Gutiérrez-Bautista,María C Barrera-Aguilera,Lucía Ballesta,Teresa Rodríguez,María J Olivares-Durán,Francisco Ruiz-Cabello","doi":"10.3324/haematol.2025.288008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2025.288008","url":null,"abstract":"Not available.","PeriodicalId":12964,"journal":{"name":"Haematologica","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144320294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}