{"title":"A comprehensive view of pregnancy in patients with sickle cell disease in high-income countries: the need for robust data and further decline in morbidity and mortality","authors":"Laure Joseph, Marine Driessen","doi":"10.1016/s2352-3026(23)00310-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2352-3026(23)00310-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><span>Sickle cell disease is a major </span>public health<span><span> concern due to its prevalence and associated morbidities. In high-income countries, diagnosis and treatment advancements have extended patient's lives and enabled women to embrace motherhood. Although the provision of care in specialist centres has reduced maternal–fetal complication rates, the mortality rate among pregnant women with sickle cell disease remains disproportionately high. Complications arise from vaso-occlusive events, worsening organ damage, thrombotic risks, infections, and pregnancy-related issues, such as pre-eclampsia, premature birth, small-for-gestational-age, and pregnancy loss. Effective management during pregnancy includes preconception planning, genetic counselling, education, and collaborative care. There is no consensus on the overall approach to managing pregnant women with sickle cell disease; however, fostering a collaborative relationship between health-care professionals and researchers is crucial for advancing the understanding and management of this illness. The </span>disparities in health-care outcomes associated with ethnicity and economic insecurity affect patients with sickle cell disease but have not been examined extensively. Hence, health-care personnel need sufficient training to address these issues alongside broader societal efforts to confront racism and discrimination. Comprehensive national and global action plans are required to address the multifaceted challenges of sickle cell disease.</span></p>","PeriodicalId":501011,"journal":{"name":"The Lancet Haematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138770628","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}
{"title":"Lucrèce Delicat-Loembet: offering hope to young people with sickle cell disease","authors":"Tony Kirby","doi":"10.1016/s2352-3026(23)00374-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2352-3026(23)00374-5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract not available","PeriodicalId":501011,"journal":{"name":"The Lancet Haematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138770277","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}
{"title":"Predicting the progression of patients with CCUS to myeloid neoplasia","authors":"Emma M Groarke","doi":"10.1016/s2352-3026(23)00361-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2352-3026(23)00361-7","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract not available","PeriodicalId":501011,"journal":{"name":"The Lancet Haematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138770345","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}
Guillermo Garcia-Manero, James McCloskey, Elizabeth A Griffiths, Karen W L Yee, Amer M Zeidan, Aref Al-Kali, H Joachim Deeg, Prapti A Patel, Mitchell Sabloff, Mary-Margaret Keating, Nancy Zhu, Nashat Y Gabrail, Salman Fazal, Joseph Maly, Olatoyosi Odenike, Hagop Kantarjian, Amy E DeZern, Casey L O’Connell, Gail J Roboz, Lambert Busque, Michael R Savona
{"title":"Oral decitabine–cedazuridine versus intravenous decitabine for myelodysplastic syndromes and chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (ASCERTAIN): a registrational, randomised, crossover, pharmacokinetics, phase 3 study","authors":"Guillermo Garcia-Manero, James McCloskey, Elizabeth A Griffiths, Karen W L Yee, Amer M Zeidan, Aref Al-Kali, H Joachim Deeg, Prapti A Patel, Mitchell Sabloff, Mary-Margaret Keating, Nancy Zhu, Nashat Y Gabrail, Salman Fazal, Joseph Maly, Olatoyosi Odenike, Hagop Kantarjian, Amy E DeZern, Casey L O’Connell, Gail J Roboz, Lambert Busque, Michael R Savona","doi":"10.1016/s2352-3026(23)00338-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2352-3026(23)00338-1","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Background</h3><p><span><span>The DNA methyltransferase inhibitors </span>azacitidine and </span>decitabine<span><span><span> for individuals with myelodysplastic syndromes or chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia are available in parenteral form. Oral therapy with similar exposure for these diseases would offer potential treatment benefits. We aimed to compare the safety and </span>pharmacokinetics of oral decitabine plus the </span>cytidine deaminase<span> inhibitor cedazuridine versus intravenous decitabine.</span></span></p><h3>Methods</h3><p><span>We did a registrational, multicentre, open-label, crossover, phase 3 trial of individuals with myelodysplastic syndromes or chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia and individuals with acute myeloid leukaemia<span>, enrolled as separate cohorts; results for only participants with myelodysplastic syndromes or chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia are reported here. In 37 academic and community-based clinics in Canada and the USA, we enrolled individuals aged 18 years or older who were candidates to receive intravenous decitabine, with Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status 0 or 1 and a life expectancy of at least 3 months. Participants were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive 5 days of oral decitabine–cedazuridine (one tablet once daily containing 35 mg decitabine and 100 mg cedazuridine as a fixed-dose combination) or intravenous decitabine (20 mg/m</span></span><sup>2</sup> per day by continuous 1-h intravenous infusion) in a 28-day treatment cycle, followed by 5 days of the other formulation in the next treatment cycle. Thereafter, all participants received oral decitabine–cedazuridine from the third cycle on until treatment discontinuation. The primary endpoint was total decitabine exposure over 5 days with oral decitabine–cedazuridine versus intravenous decitabine for cycles 1 and 2, measured as area under the curve in participants who received the full treatment dose in cycles 1 and 2 and had decitabine daily AUC<sub>0–24</sub> for both oral decitabine–cedazuridine and intravenous decitabine (ie, paired cycles). On completion of the study, all patients were rolled over to a maintenance study. This study is registered with <span>ClinicalTrials.gov</span><svg aria-label=\"Opens in new window\" focusable=\"false\" height=\"8px\" viewbox=\"0 0 8 8\" width=\"8px\"><path d=\"M1.12949 2.1072V1H7V6.85795H5.89111V2.90281L0.784057 8L0 7.21635L5.11902 2.1072H1.12949Z\"></path></svg>, <span>NCT03306264</span><svg aria-label=\"Opens in new window\" focusable=\"false\" height=\"8px\" viewbox=\"0 0 8 8\" width=\"8px\"><path d=\"M1.12949 2.1072V1H7V6.85795H5.89111V2.90281L0.784057 8L0 7.21635L5.11902 2.1072H1.12949Z\"></path></svg>.</p><h3>Findings</h3><p>Between Feb 8, 2018, and June 7, 2021, 173 individuals were screened, 138 (80%) participants were randomly assigned to a treatment sequence, and 133 (96%) participants (87 [65%] men and 46 [35%] women; 121 [91%] White, four [3%] Black or African-American, three [2%] Asian, and fiv","PeriodicalId":501011,"journal":{"name":"The Lancet Haematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138770209","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}
{"title":"Oral decitabine plus cedazuridine versus intravenous decitabine","authors":"Theo de Witte","doi":"10.1016/s2352-3026(23)00363-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2352-3026(23)00363-0","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract not available","PeriodicalId":501011,"journal":{"name":"The Lancet Haematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138770461","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}
{"title":"Changing the paradigm of AML care in India","authors":"Amitabh Singh, Ankur Jain, Heena Tabbassum, Fouzia Siraj, Bhavika Rishi, Aroonima Misra","doi":"10.1016/s2352-3026(23)00360-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2352-3026(23)00360-5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract not available","PeriodicalId":501011,"journal":{"name":"The Lancet Haematology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138770411","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}