MedPub Date : 2024-08-10DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.019
Yong-Joon Lee, Deok-Kyu Cho, Jun-Won Lee, Sanghoon Shin, Sung Woo Kwon, Yongsung Suh, Tae Soo Kang, Jong-Kwan Park, Jang-Whan Bae, Woong Cheol Kang, Seunghwan Kim, Seung-Jun Lee, Sung-Jin Hong, Chul-Min Ahn, Jung-Sun Kim, Byeong-Keuk Kim, Young-Guk Ko, Donghoon Choi, Yangsoo Jang, Kyeong Ho Yun, Myeong-Ki Hong
{"title":"Ticagrelor monotherapy in ST-elevation myocardial infarction: An individual patient-level meta-analysis from TICO and T-PASS trials.","authors":"Yong-Joon Lee, Deok-Kyu Cho, Jun-Won Lee, Sanghoon Shin, Sung Woo Kwon, Yongsung Suh, Tae Soo Kang, Jong-Kwan Park, Jang-Whan Bae, Woong Cheol Kang, Seunghwan Kim, Seung-Jun Lee, Sung-Jin Hong, Chul-Min Ahn, Jung-Sun Kim, Byeong-Keuk Kim, Young-Guk Ko, Donghoon Choi, Yangsoo Jang, Kyeong Ho Yun, Myeong-Ki Hong","doi":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) tend to be excluded or under-represented in randomized clinical trials evaluating the effects of potent P2Y12 inhibitor monotherapy after short-term dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Individual patient data were pooled from randomized clinical trials that included STEMI patients undergoing drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation and compared ticagrelor monotherapy after short-term (≤3 months) DAPT versus ticagrelor-based 12-month DAPT in terms of centrally adjudicated clinical outcomes. The co-primary outcomes were efficacy outcome (composite of all-cause death, myocardial infarction, or stroke) and safety outcome (Bleeding Academic Research Consortium type 3 or 5 bleeding) at 1 year.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>The pooled cohort contained 2,253 patients with STEMI. The incidence of the primary efficacy outcome did not differ between the ticagrelor monotherapy group and the ticagrelor-based DAPT group (1.8% versus 2.0%; hazard ratio [HR] = 0.88; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.49-1.61; p = 0.684). There was no difference in cardiac death between the groups (0.6% versus 0.7%; HR = 0.89; 95% CI = 0.32-2.46; p = 0.822). The incidence of the primary safety outcome was significantly lower in the ticagrelor monotherapy group (2.3% versus 4.0%; HR = 0.56; 95% CI = 0.35-0.92; p = 0.020). No heterogeneity of treatment effects was observed for the primary outcomes across subgroups.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In patients with STEMI treated with DES implantation, ticagrelor monotherapy after short-term DAPT was associated with lower major bleeding without an increase in the risk of ischemic events compared with ticagrelor-based 12-month DAPT. Further research is necessary to extend these findings to non-Asian patients.</p><p><strong>Funding: </strong>This study was funded by Biotronik (Bülach, Switzerland).</p>","PeriodicalId":29964,"journal":{"name":"Med","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141996589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MedPub Date : 2024-08-10DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.022
Jeffrey A How, Minghao Dang, Sanghoon Lee, Bryan Fellman, Shannon N Westin, Anil K Sood, Nicole D Fleming, Aaron Shafer, Ying Yuan, Jinsong Liu, Li Zhao, Joseph Celestino, Richard Hajek, Margaret B Morgan, Edwin R Parra, Caddie D Laberiano Fernandez, Claudio A Arrechedera, Luisa Maren Solis Soto, Kathleen M Schmeler, Alpa Nick, Karen H Lu, Robert Coleman, Linghua Wang, Amir A Jazaeri
{"title":"Pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in frontline treatment of advanced ovarian cancer: Clinical and translational results from a phase 2 trial.","authors":"Jeffrey A How, Minghao Dang, Sanghoon Lee, Bryan Fellman, Shannon N Westin, Anil K Sood, Nicole D Fleming, Aaron Shafer, Ying Yuan, Jinsong Liu, Li Zhao, Joseph Celestino, Richard Hajek, Margaret B Morgan, Edwin R Parra, Caddie D Laberiano Fernandez, Claudio A Arrechedera, Luisa Maren Solis Soto, Kathleen M Schmeler, Alpa Nick, Karen H Lu, Robert Coleman, Linghua Wang, Amir A Jazaeri","doi":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.022","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The efficacy and feasibility of pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in frontline management of advanced high-grade epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is unknown. Additionally, modification of the tumor microenvironment following neoadjuvant therapy is not well understood.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this single-arm phase 2 trial (this study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02520154), eligible patients received up to 4 cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by interval cytoreduction, 3 cycles of adjuvant intravenous carboplatin/weekly paclitaxel/pembrolizumab, and finally maintenance pembrolizumab until progression or toxicity (maximum 20 cycles). The primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS). Secondary endpoints included feasibility, toxicity, and overall survival (OS). PD-L1 staining, multiplex immunofluorescence staining, RNA sequencing, reverse-phase protein array analyses were performed on pre- and post-chemotherapy samples.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Thirty-one eligible patients were enrolled. Median PFS and OS was 14.88 (95% CI 12.39-23.00) and 57.43 months (95% CI 30.88-not reached), respectively. Among those with PD-L1 combined positive score (CPS) ≥10, the median PFS and OS were not reached compared to those with CPS <10 (10.50 and 30.90 months, respectively). Feasibility was met, with all patients completing their planned adjuvant cycles. Treatment discontinuation due to immune-related toxicity occurred in 6 patients (20%). Chemotherapy resulted in an infiltration of anti-tumor immune cells in the tumor microenvironment. Samples of patients with the best PFS demonstrated increased expression of NF-κB, TGF-β, and β-catenin signaling.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Pembrolizumab with chemotherapy was feasible and resulted in PFS within the historical range for this EOC population. Patients with CPS ≥10 may benefit more from this regimen, and future studies should investigate this potential biomarker.</p><p><strong>Funding: </strong>This investigator-initiated trial was funded by Merck.</p>","PeriodicalId":29964,"journal":{"name":"Med","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141996588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MedPub Date : 2024-08-10DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.018
Shanshan Suo, Shu Sun, Le Xuan Truong Nguyen, Jiejing Qian, Fenglin Li, Dandan Zhao, Wenjuan Yu, Yinjun Lou, Honghu Zhu, Hongyan Tong, Min Yang, Xin Huang, Shuqi Zhao, Junjing Qiao, Chen Liang, Huafeng Wang, Yi Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Dinh Hoa Hoang, Fang Chen, Hyunjun Kang, Melissa Valerio, Jie Sun, Lucy Ghoda, Ling Li, Guido Marcucci, Bin Zhang, Jie Jin
{"title":"Homoharringtonine synergizes with venetoclax in early T cell progenitor acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Bench and bed.","authors":"Shanshan Suo, Shu Sun, Le Xuan Truong Nguyen, Jiejing Qian, Fenglin Li, Dandan Zhao, Wenjuan Yu, Yinjun Lou, Honghu Zhu, Hongyan Tong, Min Yang, Xin Huang, Shuqi Zhao, Junjing Qiao, Chen Liang, Huafeng Wang, Yi Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Dinh Hoa Hoang, Fang Chen, Hyunjun Kang, Melissa Valerio, Jie Sun, Lucy Ghoda, Ling Li, Guido Marcucci, Bin Zhang, Jie Jin","doi":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Early T cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ETP-ALL) is a distinct subtype of T-ALL with a poor prognosis. To find a cure, we examined the synergistic effect of homoharringtonine (HHT) in combination with the BCL-2 inhibitor venetoclax (VEN) in ETP-ALL.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using in vitro cellular assays and ETP-ALL xenograft models, we first investigated the synergistic activity of HHT and VEN in ETP-ALL. Next, to explore the underlying mechanism, we employed single-cell RNA sequencing of primary ETP-ALL cells treated with HHT or VEN alone or in combination and validated the results with western blot assays. Based on the promising preclinical results and given that both drugs have been approved for clinical use, we then assessed this combination in clinical practice.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Our results showed that HHT synergizes strongly with VEN both in vitro and in vivo in ETP-ALL. Mechanistic studies demonstrated that the HHT/VEN combination concurrently downregulated key anti-apoptotic proteins, i.e., MCL1, leading to enhanced apoptosis. Importantly, the clinical results were very promising. Six patients with ETP-ALL with either refractory/relapsed (R/R) or newly diagnosed disease were treated with an HHT/VEN-based regimen. All patients achieved complete remission (CR) after only one cycle of treatment.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings demonstrate that a combination of HHT/VEN is effective on ETP-ALL and represents the \"backbone\" of a promising and safe regimen for newly diagnosed and R/R patients with ETP-ALL.</p><p><strong>Funding: </strong>This work was funded by the National Cancer Institute, Gehr Family Foundation, George Hoag Family Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province of China.</p>","PeriodicalId":29964,"journal":{"name":"Med","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141996586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MedPub Date : 2024-08-10DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.020
Jian Pan, Junlong Wu, Beihe Wang, Bin Zhu, Xiaohang Liu, Hualei Gan, Yu Wei, Shengming Jin, Xiaoxin Hu, Qifeng Wang, Shaoli Song, Chang Liu, Dingwei Ye, Yao Zhu
{"title":"Interlesional response heterogeneity is associated with the prognosis of abiraterone treatment in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.","authors":"Jian Pan, Junlong Wu, Beihe Wang, Bin Zhu, Xiaohang Liu, Hualei Gan, Yu Wei, Shengming Jin, Xiaoxin Hu, Qifeng Wang, Shaoli Song, Chang Liu, Dingwei Ye, Yao Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Interlesional response heterogeneity (ILRH) poses challenges to the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Currently, there are no prospective clinical trials exploring the prognostic significance of ILRH on paired positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in the context of abiraterone therapy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this prospective study, we enrolled patients with mCRPC treated with abiraterone (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05188911; ChiCTR.org.cn: ChiCTR2000034708). <sup>68</sup>Ga-prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)+<sup>18</sup>F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) monitoring were performed at baseline and week 13. Patients were grouped by their early ILRH measurement. The primary endpoint was to evaluate the predictive role of ILRH for conventional progression-free survival (PFS) through the concordance index (C-index) assessment. Conventional PFS was defined as the time from medication to conventional radiographic progression, clinical progression, or death.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Ultimately, 33 patients were included with a median follow-up of 28.7 months. Baseline+week 13 PSMA PET/CT revealed that 33.3% of patients showed ILRH. Those patients with hetero-responding disease had significantly different PFS compared to the responding and non-responding groups (hazard ratio: responding group = reference, hetero-responding group = 4.0, non-responding group = 5.8; p < 0.0001). The C-index of ILRH on paired PSMA PET/CT (0.742 vs. 0.660) and FDG PET/CT (0.736 vs. 0.668) for conventional PFS was higher than that of PSA response. In an exploratory analysis, PSMA-/FDG+ lesions at week 13 were identified as a strong surrogate for poor conventional PFS (p = 0.039).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>ILRH on both baseline+week 13 PSMA and FDG PET/CT strongly associated with conventional PFS.</p><p><strong>Funding: </strong>This study was funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and Shanghai.</p>","PeriodicalId":29964,"journal":{"name":"Med","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141996587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MedPub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.06.011
Lee-Ling Lim, Kamlesh Khunti
{"title":"Therapy for HFpEF: A step forward brings new hope for people with obesity and diabetes.","authors":"Lee-Ling Lim, Kamlesh Khunti","doi":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.06.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2024.06.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The STEP-HFpEF DM trial<sup>1</sup> showed that semaglutide improved body weight, systemic inflammation, and heart failure symptoms in people with obesity-related heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and type 2 diabetes. By addressing both metabolic and cardiovascular risk, semaglutide is a promising therapeutic option for HFpEF in addition to SGLT2i.</p>","PeriodicalId":29964,"journal":{"name":"Med","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141914220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MedPub Date : 2024-08-09Epub Date: 2024-05-21DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.04.010
Miriam Daphne Rendel, Cecilia Vitali, Kate Townsend Creasy, David Zhang, Eleonora Scorletti, Helen Huang, Katharina Sophie Seeling, Joseph Park, Leonida Hehl, Mara Sophie Vell, Donna Conlon, Sikander Hayat, Michael C Phillips, Kai Markus Schneider, Daniel J Rader, Carolin Victoria Schneider
{"title":"The common p.Ile291Val variant of ERLIN1 enhances TM6SF2 function and is associated with protection against MASLD.","authors":"Miriam Daphne Rendel, Cecilia Vitali, Kate Townsend Creasy, David Zhang, Eleonora Scorletti, Helen Huang, Katharina Sophie Seeling, Joseph Park, Leonida Hehl, Mara Sophie Vell, Donna Conlon, Sikander Hayat, Michael C Phillips, Kai Markus Schneider, Daniel J Rader, Carolin Victoria Schneider","doi":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.04.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.04.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The ERLIN1 p.Ile291Val single-nucleotide polymorphism (rs2862954) is associated with protection from steatotic liver disease (SLD), but effects of this variant on metabolic phenotypes remain uncertain.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Metabolic phenotypes and outcomes associated with ERLIN1 p.Ile291Val were analyzed by using a genome-first approach in the UK Biobank (UKB), Penn Medicine BioBank (PMBB), and All of Us cohort.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>ERLIN1 p.Ile291Val carriers exhibited significantly lower serum levels of alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase as well as higher levels of triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, Apolipoprotein B, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and Apolipoprotein A1 in UKB, and these values were affected by ERLIN1 p.Ile291Val in an allele-dose-dependent manner. Homozygous ERLIN1 p.Ile291Val carriers had a significantly reduced risk of developing metabolic dysfunction-associated SLD (MASLD, adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 0.92, 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.88-0.96). The protective effect of this variant was enhanced in patients with alcoholic liver disease. Our results were replicated in PMBB and the All of Us cohort. Strikingly, the protective effects of ERLIN1 p.Ile291Val were not apparent in individuals carrying the TM6SF2 p.Glu167Lys variant associated with increased risk of SLD. We analyzed the effects of predicted loss-of-function ERLIN1 variants and found that they had opposite effects, namely reduced plasma lipids, suggesting that ERLIN1 p.Ile291Val may be a gain-of-function variant.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our study contributes to a better understanding of ERLIN1 by investigating a coding variant that has emerged as a potential gain-of-function mutation with protective effects against MASLD development.</p>","PeriodicalId":29964,"journal":{"name":"Med","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141082416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MedPub Date : 2024-08-09Epub Date: 2024-05-22DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.04.011
Jie Zhao, Lu Wang, Anda Zhou, Shidi Wen, Wenfeng Fang, Li Zhang, Jianchun Duan, Hua Bai, Jia Zhong, Rui Wan, Boyang Sun, Wei Zhuang, Yiwen Lin, Danming He, Lina Cui, Zhijie Wang, Jie Wang
{"title":"Decision model for durable clinical benefit from front- or late-line immunotherapy alone or with chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer.","authors":"Jie Zhao, Lu Wang, Anda Zhou, Shidi Wen, Wenfeng Fang, Li Zhang, Jianchun Duan, Hua Bai, Jia Zhong, Rui Wan, Boyang Sun, Wei Zhuang, Yiwen Lin, Danming He, Lina Cui, Zhijie Wang, Jie Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.04.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.04.011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Predictive biomarkers and models of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have been extensively studied in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, evidence for many biomarkers remains inconclusive, and the opaqueness of machine learning models hinders practicality. We aimed to provide compelling evidence for biomarkers and develop a transparent decision tree model.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We consolidated data from 3,288 ICI-treated patients with NSCLC across real-world multicenter, public cohorts and the Choice-01 trial (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03856411). Over 50 features were examined for predicting durable clinical benefits (DCBs) from ICIs. Noteworthy biomarkers were identified to establish a decision tree model. Additionally, we explored the tumor microenvironment and peripheral CD8<sup>+</sup> programmed death-1 (PD-1)+ T cell receptor (TCR) profiles.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified tumor histology, PD-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression, tumor mutational burden, line, and regimen of ICI treatment as significant factors. Mutation subtypes of EGFR, KRAS, KEAP1, STK11, and disruptive TP53 mutations were associated with DCB. The decision tree (DT10) model, using the ten clinicopathological and genomic markers, showed superior performance in predicting DCB in the training set (area under the curve [AUC] = 0.82) and consistently outperformed other models in test sets. DT10-predicted-DCB patients manifested longer survival, an enriched inflamed tumor immune phenotype (67%), and higher peripheral TCR diversity, whereas the DT10-predicted-NDB (non-durable benefit) group showed an enriched desert immune phenotype (86%) and higher peripheral TCR clonality.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The model effectively predicted DCB after front-/subsequent-line ICI treatment, with or without chemotherapy, for squamous and non-squamous lung cancer, offering clinicians valuable insights into efficacy prediction using cost-effective variables.</p><p><strong>Funding: </strong>This study was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China.</p>","PeriodicalId":29964,"journal":{"name":"Med","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141088984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MedPub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.001
Chikashi Yoshida, Tomoiku Takaku
{"title":"Asciminib: the next-generation bullet for first-line treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia.","authors":"Chikashi Yoshida, Tomoiku Takaku","doi":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2024.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The standard of care for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) involves tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), which suppress tyrosine kinase activity of BCR::ABL1. Hochhaus et al. reported that asciminib, a BCR::ABL1 inhibitor specifically targeting the ABL myristoyl pocket, showed superior efficacy and favorable safety compared with TKIs in the phase 3 ASC4FIRST trial in patients with newly diagnosed chronic-phase CML.<sup>1</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":29964,"journal":{"name":"Med","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141914184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MedPub Date : 2024-08-09Epub Date: 2024-06-03DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.04.009
{"title":"Global pattern, trend, and cross-country inequality of early musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 to 2019, with projection from 2020 to 2050.","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.04.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.04.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study aims to estimate the burden, trends, forecasts, and disparities of early musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders among individuals ages 15 to 39 years.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The global prevalence, years lived with disabilities (YLDs), disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), projection, and inequality were estimated for early MSK diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), osteoarthritis (OA), low back pain (LBP), neck pain (NP), gout, and other MSK diseases (OMSKDs).</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>More adolescents and young adults were expected to develop MSK disorders by 2050. Across five age groups, the rates of prevalence, YLDs, and DALYs for RA, NP, LBP, gout, and OMSKDs sharply increased from ages 15-19 to 35-39; however, these were negligible for OA before age 30 but increased notably at ages 30-34, rising at least 6-fold by 35-39. The disease burden of gout, LBP, and OA attributable to high BMI and gout attributable to kidney dysfunction increased, while the contribution of smoking to LBP and RA and occupational ergonomic factors to LBP decreased. Between 1990 and 2019, the slope index of inequality increased for six MSK disorders, and the relative concentration index increased for gout, NP, OA, and OMSKDs but decreased for LBP and RA.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Multilevel interventions should be initiated to prevent disease burden related to RA, NP, LBP, gout, and OMSKDs among individuals ages 15-19 and to OA among individuals ages 30-34 to tightly control high BMI and kidney dysfunction.</p><p><strong>Funding: </strong>The Global Burden of Disease study is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project is funded by the Scientific Research Fund of Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital (2022QN38).</p>","PeriodicalId":29964,"journal":{"name":"Med","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11321819/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141248850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MedPub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.06.012
Danielle Brazel, Misako Nagasaka
{"title":"Checkmate 77T: Perioperative chemoimmunotherapy outperforms in early-stage NSCLC.","authors":"Danielle Brazel, Misako Nagasaka","doi":"10.1016/j.medj.2024.06.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2024.06.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Approximately 1 in 4 patients with NSCLC present with resectable disease. Although surgery is potentially curative, 30%-50% of patients relapse. Studies have shown that neoadjuvant, adjuvant, and perioperative chemoimmunotherapy improve outcomes. The Checkmate 77T trial explored if perioperative platinum-based chemotherapy plus nivolumab, surgical resection, then adjuvant nivolumab further improved outcomes including EFS.<sup>1</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":29964,"journal":{"name":"Med","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141914215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}