BloodPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1182/blood.2024026016
Erin M Parry,Jessica Okosun
{"title":"An Updated Understanding of Follicular Lymphoma Transformation.","authors":"Erin M Parry,Jessica Okosun","doi":"10.1182/blood.2024026016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2024026016","url":null,"abstract":"While the majority of patients with follicular lymphoma (FL) follow an indolent disease course, some patients experience a critical inflection point when FL transforms into an aggressive lymphoma. Historically, FL transformation (tFL) is marked by poor outcomes, particularly for patients with prior FL-directed treatment. Compared to FL, tFL is marked by numerous additional genetic changes, upregulates novel signaling pathways and arises from an ancestral FL clone with shared FL-initiating mutations. Prediction of tFL risk remains a high-priority area of disease research, with recent work highlighting memory-like B cell phenotypes associated with transformation risk and implicating critical tumor-immune interactions at transformation emergence. Mechanistic studies provide insight into the role of genetic drivers in determining malignant B cell phenotypes or reducing microenvironmental dependencies. In parallel, a shifting therapeutic landscape marked by novel immune-based therapeutics is improving outcomes for patients, yet further clinical outcome data in tFL are greatly needed. This review summarizes recent scientific and clinical studies in tFL and provides an updated understanding of the biological basis, diagnosis and clinical management of tFL. We conclude with a proposed plan of future research aimed at the goal of increasing tFL biologic knowledge and improving outcomes for patients with tFL.","PeriodicalId":9102,"journal":{"name":"Blood","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144065798","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}
BloodPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1182/blood.2025029023
Olaf Penack
{"title":"Prevention is better than cure.","authors":"Olaf Penack","doi":"10.1182/blood.2025029023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2025029023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9102,"journal":{"name":"Blood","volume":"145 20","pages":"2236-2237"},"PeriodicalIF":21.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144075889","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}
BloodPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1182/blood.2024026511
Simona Soverini,Fausto Castagnetti
{"title":"How I Evaluate and Treat Resistance and Relapse in CML.","authors":"Simona Soverini,Fausto Castagnetti","doi":"10.1182/blood.2024026511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2024026511","url":null,"abstract":"As evidenced by the excellent survival outcomes, chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) treatment in the era of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) is often successful. However, when response milestones are not met or lost, treatment decision-making may be challenging. The availability for first-, second- or subsequent-line use of six different TKIs, each with definite and often non-overlapping features in terms of mechanism of action, potency, activity against resistance mutations and tolerability profile provides a reassuring opportunity to rescue an optimal response, but it must be exploited carefully to avoid hasty or inappropriate choices. When and how to sequence TKIs, and if and when to consider transplant are very important issues. 'One for all' rules cannot be formulated, since for each individual patient the decision process requires investigation and integration of a series of clinical and biological factors. After discussing how resistance is defined, we here aim to provide practical guidance to therapeutic reassessment, discussing which laboratory investigations should be performed, how they should be interpreted, which additional clinical considerations are mandatory, and how these factors should be weighed and reasonably concur to the final decision.","PeriodicalId":9102,"journal":{"name":"Blood","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144065832","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}
BloodPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1182/blood.2023022883
Susan Nahirniak, Veera Nadarajan, Simon J Stanworth
{"title":"How I treat patients who are refractory to platelet transfusions.","authors":"Susan Nahirniak, Veera Nadarajan, Simon J Stanworth","doi":"10.1182/blood.2023022883","DOIUrl":"10.1182/blood.2023022883","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Patients with thrombocytopenia requiring ongoing platelet transfusion support may develop inadequate platelet count increments, referred to as platelet refractoriness (PR), which further complicates their care. The underlying etiologies of PR can be broadly divided into immune and nonimmune causes. A high index of suspicion is required to initiate testing for alloimmunization, and the leading culprit in immune PR is the development of class I HLA antibodies. The approach to diagnosis of immune PR has changed over recent years with new technologies, but questions regarding the clinical significance and interpretation of these methods have not been conclusively answered. The provision of HLA-matched platelets requires close and timely coordination between transfusion services and clinical teams; however, the true impact of their provision on clinical outcomes is not clear. This paper reviews diagnostic and management challenges, appraises the existing data available to support treatment options, and identifies research gaps.</p>","PeriodicalId":9102,"journal":{"name":"Blood","volume":" ","pages":"2293-2302"},"PeriodicalIF":21.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456672","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}
BloodPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1182/blood.2023023648
Stella T Chou, Jeanne E Hendrickson
{"title":"How I treat challenging transfusion cases in sickle cell disease.","authors":"Stella T Chou, Jeanne E Hendrickson","doi":"10.1182/blood.2023023648","DOIUrl":"10.1182/blood.2023023648","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Transfusion of red blood cells (RBCs) can be lifesaving for individuals living with sickle cell disease (SCD). However, alloimmunization after transfusion is more common with patients with SCD than in other patient populations, resulting in morbidity and mortality. Management of complications related to RBC alloantibodies, including delayed hemolytic transfusion reactions (DHTRs) and identifying compatible RBCs for future transfusions, remains a challenge for hematologists and transfusion medicine providers. Although transfusion guidelines from organizations, including the American Society for Hematology provide general recommendations, individual cases remain challenging. Antibody evanescence and the lack of widespread RBC alloantibody data sharing across hospitals pose unique challenges, as do RH variants in both transfusion recipients and blood donors. Further, as potentially curative therapies require RBC transfusions to lower the hemoglobin S before cellular therapy collections and infusions, patients who are highly alloimmunized may be deemed ineligible. The cases described are representative of clinical dilemmas the authors have encountered, and the approaches are as evidence-based as the literature and the authors' experiences allow. A future desired state is one in which RBC alloantibody data are efficiently shared across institutions, Rh alloimmunization can be mitigated, better treatments exist for DHTRs, and a label of difficult to transfuse does not prevent desired therapies.</p>","PeriodicalId":9102,"journal":{"name":"Blood","volume":" ","pages":"2257-2265"},"PeriodicalIF":21.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140903703","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}
BloodPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1182/blood.2024027171
Marcel Fabian Pohly, Kerstin Putzker, Sebastian Scheinost, Lena Ben Taarit, Tatjana Walther, Sandra Kummer, Tobias Wertheimer, Minqi Lin, Thi Huong Lan Do, Kristina Handler, Jan Michler, Jarno Kivioja, Karsten Bach, Samanta Kisele, James Kim, Sascha Dietrich, Beat Bornhauser, Wendy Wei-Lynn Wong, Burkhard Becher, Andreas Moor, Joe Lewis, Xenia Ficht, Junyan Lu, Wolfgang Huber, Thorsten Zenz
{"title":"IAP dependency of T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia identified by high-throughput drug screening.","authors":"Marcel Fabian Pohly, Kerstin Putzker, Sebastian Scheinost, Lena Ben Taarit, Tatjana Walther, Sandra Kummer, Tobias Wertheimer, Minqi Lin, Thi Huong Lan Do, Kristina Handler, Jan Michler, Jarno Kivioja, Karsten Bach, Samanta Kisele, James Kim, Sascha Dietrich, Beat Bornhauser, Wendy Wei-Lynn Wong, Burkhard Becher, Andreas Moor, Joe Lewis, Xenia Ficht, Junyan Lu, Wolfgang Huber, Thorsten Zenz","doi":"10.1182/blood.2024027171","DOIUrl":"10.1182/blood.2024027171","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia (T-PLL) is an aggressive lymphoid malignancy with limited treatment options. To discover new treatment targets for T-PLL, we performed high-throughput drug sensitivity screening on 30 primary patient samples ex vivo. After screening >2800 unique compounds, we found T-PLL to be more resistant to most drug classes, including chemotherapeutics, than other blood cancers. Furthermore, we discovered previously unreported vulnerabilities of T-PLL. T-PLL cells exhibited a particular sensitivity to drugs targeting autophagy (thapsigargin and bafilomycin A1), nuclear export (selinexor), and inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs; birinapant), sensitivities that were also shared by other T-cell malignancies. Through bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing, we found these compounds to activate the Toll-like receptor (bafilomycin A1), p53 (selinexor), and tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α)/NF-κB signaling pathways (birinapant) in T-PLL cells. Focusing on birinapant for its potential in drug repurposing, we uncovered that IAP inhibitor-induced cell death was primarily necroptotic and dependent on TNF-α. Through spectral flow cytometry, we confirmed the absence of cleaved caspase-3 in IAP inhibitor-treated T-PLL cells and show that IAP inhibition reduces the proliferation of T-PLL cells stimulated ex vivo, while showing only a limited effect on nonmalignant T-cells. In summary, our study maps the drug sensitivity of T-PLL across a broad range of targets and identifies new therapeutic approaches for T-PLL by targeting IAPs, exportin 1, and autophagy, highlighting potential candidates for drug repurposing and novel treatment strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":9102,"journal":{"name":"Blood","volume":" ","pages":"2336-2352"},"PeriodicalIF":21.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143051779","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}
BloodPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1182/blood.2024027347
Julio C Chavez, Michael Dickinson, Javier Munoz, Matthew L Ulrickson, Catherine Thieblemont, Olalekan O Oluwole, Alex F Herrera, Chaitra S Ujjani, Yi Lin, Peter A Riedell, Natasha Kekre, Sven de Vos, Jacob Wulff, Chad M Williams, Joshua Winters, Ioana Kloos, Hairong Xu, Sattva S Neelapu
{"title":"Three-year follow-up analysis of first-line axicabtagene ciloleucel for high-risk large B-cell lymphoma: the ZUMA-12 study.","authors":"Julio C Chavez, Michael Dickinson, Javier Munoz, Matthew L Ulrickson, Catherine Thieblemont, Olalekan O Oluwole, Alex F Herrera, Chaitra S Ujjani, Yi Lin, Peter A Riedell, Natasha Kekre, Sven de Vos, Jacob Wulff, Chad M Williams, Joshua Winters, Ioana Kloos, Hairong Xu, Sattva S Neelapu","doi":"10.1182/blood.2024027347","DOIUrl":"10.1182/blood.2024027347","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>ZUMA-12 is a multicenter phase 2 study evaluating axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel) autologous anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy as part of first-line treatment for high-risk large B-cell lymphoma (LBCL). In the primary efficacy analysis (n = 37; median follow-up, 15.9 months), axi-cel demonstrated a high rate of complete responses (CR; 78%) and a safety profile consistent with prior experience. Here, we assessed updated outcomes from ZUMA-12 in 40 treated patients after ≥3 years of follow-up. Eligible adults underwent leukapheresis, lymphodepleting chemotherapy, and axi-cel infusion (2 × 106 CAR T cells/kg). Investigator-assessed CR, objective response, survival, safety, and CAR T-cell expansion were assessed. The CR rate among response-evaluable patients (n = 37) increased after the primary analysis to 86% (95% confidence interval [CI], 71%-95%), with a 92% objective response rate. After a median follow-up of 47.0 months (range, 37.1-57.8 months), 36-month estimates (95% CI) of duration of response and event-free, progression-free, and overall survival were 81.8% (63.9%-91.4%), 73.0% (55.6%-84.4%), 75.1% (57.5%-86.2%), and 81.1% (64.4%-90.5%), respectively. In total, 4 patients had new malignancies, 2 occurring after the data cutoff of the primary analysis; none were axi-cel-related. Eight patients died on study, 2 of whom died from nonrelapse mortality causes. After long-term follow-up, axi-cel demonstrated a high durable response rate, with no new safety signals after the primary analysis, suggestive of an effective first-line therapy with curative intent in high-risk LBCL. Further assessments are needed to determine its benefit vs standard of care. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov, as NCT03761056.</p>","PeriodicalId":9102,"journal":{"name":"Blood","volume":" ","pages":"2303-2311"},"PeriodicalIF":21.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143405562","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}
BloodPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1182/blood.2024028005
Zachariah DeFilipp, Haesook T Kim, Laura W Knight, Suzanne M O'Connor, Shilton E Dhaver, Meghan White, Bhagirathbhai Dholaria, Mark A Schroeder, Sumithira Vasu, Sameem Abedin, Jooho Chung, Areej El-Jawahri, Matthew J Frigault, Steven McAfee, Richard A Newcomb, Paul V O'Donnell, Thomas R Spitzer, Yi-Bin Chen, Gabriela S Hobbs
{"title":"Low rates of chronic graft-versus-host disease with ruxolitinib maintenance following allogeneic HCT.","authors":"Zachariah DeFilipp, Haesook T Kim, Laura W Knight, Suzanne M O'Connor, Shilton E Dhaver, Meghan White, Bhagirathbhai Dholaria, Mark A Schroeder, Sumithira Vasu, Sameem Abedin, Jooho Chung, Areej El-Jawahri, Matthew J Frigault, Steven McAfee, Richard A Newcomb, Paul V O'Donnell, Thomas R Spitzer, Yi-Bin Chen, Gabriela S Hobbs","doi":"10.1182/blood.2024028005","DOIUrl":"10.1182/blood.2024028005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Despite recent advances in graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis, novel approaches to effective prevention of chronic GVHD (cGVHD) remain of high importance. In this prospective, multicenter, phase 2 trial, ruxolitinib, an oral inhibitor of Janus kinase (JAK) 1 and 2, was administered as maintenance therapy after reduced-intensity allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). GVHD prophylaxis consisted of tacrolimus and methotrexate. Ruxolitinib began between day +30 to 100 and was administered continuously in 28-day cycles for up to 24 cycles. Seventy-eight participants were enrolled before HCT; 63 participants received the intervention. The median start date of ruxolitinib after HCT was day +45. The most common grade ≥3 adverse events were neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, and anemia. Seven participants experienced grade ≥3 infectious events. GVHD-free, relapse-free survival at 1 year after HCT, the primary end point, was 70%. Grade 3 to 4 acute GVHD at 6 months was 4.8%, and moderate-severe cGVHD at 2 years was 16%. cGVHD requiring systemic therapy was 9.5% at 1 year and 13% at 2 years. Overall survival and progression-free survival at 2 years were 76% and 68%, respectively. Prolonged administration of ruxolitinib following HCT is associated with low rates of clinically significant cGVHD. The incorporation of JAK inhibition into GVHD prevention approaches warrants further investigation. This trial was registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov as #NCT03286530.</p>","PeriodicalId":9102,"journal":{"name":"Blood","volume":" ","pages":"2312-2316"},"PeriodicalIF":21.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143662431","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}
BloodPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1182/blood.2025028354
Guillaume Manson,Roch Houot
{"title":"CARs in pole position: ready for the race?","authors":"Guillaume Manson,Roch Houot","doi":"10.1182/blood.2025028354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2025028354","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9102,"journal":{"name":"Blood","volume":"40 1","pages":"2235-2236"},"PeriodicalIF":20.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143991971","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}
BloodPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1182/blood.2025028353
Marwan Kwok,Tatjana Stankovic
{"title":"Expanding the universe of T-PLL targets.","authors":"Marwan Kwok,Tatjana Stankovic","doi":"10.1182/blood.2025028353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2025028353","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9102,"journal":{"name":"Blood","volume":"28 1","pages":"2239-2241"},"PeriodicalIF":20.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143992025","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}