Silke Heidenreich, Katharina Egger-Heidrich, Jörg P Halter, Lasse Jost, Friedrich Stölzel, Markus Perl, Alexander Denk, Matthias Edinger, Wolfgang Herr, Nicolaus Kröger, Daniel Wolff, Francis Ayuk, Matthias A Fante
{"title":"Safety and efficacy of the ROCK-2-inhibitor Belumosudil in cGvHD treatment - a retrospective, German-Swiss multicenter real-world data analysis.","authors":"Silke Heidenreich, Katharina Egger-Heidrich, Jörg P Halter, Lasse Jost, Friedrich Stölzel, Markus Perl, Alexander Denk, Matthias Edinger, Wolfgang Herr, Nicolaus Kröger, Daniel Wolff, Francis Ayuk, Matthias A Fante","doi":"10.1038/s41409-024-02507-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-024-02507-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Belumosudil is a first in class ROCK2-inhibitor approved by the FDA for the 3rd line treatment of chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGvHD). In this retrospective real-world analysis, we report safety and efficacy data of belumosudil treatment from 5 German/Swiss transplant centers. A total of 33 adult patients (median age 59 years) with moderate (n = 2) or severe (n = 31) cGvHD were treated on individual request due to lack of EMA approval. The patient cohort had a long history of cGvHD (median 44 months) and was heavily pretreated (median 4 prior lines). The overall response rate was 42% (95%CI, 25-60%) including organ responses in all organs except the liver (n = 2). The median time to response was 3 months (range, 1-9 months) and 8 of 14 patients (57%) had a durable response at last follow-up. One-third of patients had at least a 50% reduction in concomitant corticosteroid dosage. Median failure-free survival and median overall survival were 16.5 and 23.1 months, respectively. Adverse events ≥CTCAE grade 3 were reported in 27% of patients, with a predominance of infectious events, including one fatal course. The results are consistent with previous prospective trials including a favorable safety profile, while acknowledging the challenges of a heavily pretreated patient cohort.</p>","PeriodicalId":9126,"journal":{"name":"Bone Marrow Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142982684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian J Puzo, Stuart Seropian, Henry Rinder, Christopher A Tormey, Alexa J Siddon
{"title":"Defining a lineage-specific chimerism threshold for the use of donor lymphocyte infusions in treating myeloid malignancies.","authors":"Christian J Puzo, Stuart Seropian, Henry Rinder, Christopher A Tormey, Alexa J Siddon","doi":"10.1038/s41409-025-02510-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-025-02510-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9126,"journal":{"name":"Bone Marrow Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142977560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: Molecular MRD testing in patients with acute myeloid leukemia","authors":"Amanda L. Blackmon, Michael R. Grunwald","doi":"10.1038/s41409-024-02493-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41409-024-02493-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9126,"journal":{"name":"Bone Marrow Transplantation","volume":"60 2","pages":"119-121"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41409-024-02493-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142969662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marco Maria Sindoni, Francesca Limido, Anita Toso, Giovanna Lucchini, Giuseppe Gaipa, Adriana Balduzzi, Silvia Nucera
{"title":"aGvHDtrackR and cGvHDtrackR: shiny applications for graft versus host disease management and clinical data collection.","authors":"Marco Maria Sindoni, Francesca Limido, Anita Toso, Giovanna Lucchini, Giuseppe Gaipa, Adriana Balduzzi, Silvia Nucera","doi":"10.1038/s41409-025-02509-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-025-02509-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) is one of the most common and troublesome complications after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Despite adequate GvHD prophylaxis, 30-50% of the patients still develop acute or chronic GvHD, often requiring multiple lines of therapy. Therefore, it is crucial to closely monitor the onset and the response of GvHD to therapies to identify the best available treatment for each patient. Currently, some applications (desktop or mobile) that allow to score GvHD severity at the bedside are available. However, none of the published systems is designed to record ongoing therapies and to upload data in a database, which can support both the clinical decision-making process as well as data collection. To this aim, we developed two Shiny apps: aGvHDtrackR for acute GvHD and cGvHDtrackR for chronic GvHD. These applications record GvHD grading alongside the therapies used for each patient and allow to export of the data in a longitudinal patient-specific database. This is of help for the clinical management of patients and for future multicentric studies on GvHD.</p>","PeriodicalId":9126,"journal":{"name":"Bone Marrow Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142944722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Larisa Broglie, Elizabeth Siepmann, Bronwen Shaw, On Behalf of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)
{"title":"In memory of Kristin Page 1974–2024","authors":"Larisa Broglie, Elizabeth Siepmann, Bronwen Shaw, On Behalf of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)","doi":"10.1038/s41409-024-02484-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41409-024-02484-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9126,"journal":{"name":"Bone Marrow Transplantation","volume":"60 2","pages":"178-179"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41409-024-02484-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142926661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fangfang Yu, Jiahua Niu, Jianmin Yang, Jian Hou, Siguo Hao, Aibin Liang, Hong Xiong, Qi Zhu, Ligen Liu, Jun Shi, Juan Du, Bobin Chen, Rong Wei, Wenli Zhao, Lihua Sun, Yunhua Hou, Rong Tao, Xianmin Song
{"title":"Optimal timing and impact of allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation in adult T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma: insights from a large cohort multi-center real-world study in Shanghai.","authors":"Fangfang Yu, Jiahua Niu, Jianmin Yang, Jian Hou, Siguo Hao, Aibin Liang, Hong Xiong, Qi Zhu, Ligen Liu, Jun Shi, Juan Du, Bobin Chen, Rong Wei, Wenli Zhao, Lihua Sun, Yunhua Hou, Rong Tao, Xianmin Song","doi":"10.1038/s41409-024-02500-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-024-02500-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this real-world study, 153 adult T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LBL) patients from sixteen centers in Shanghai were enrolled. Out of them, 103 (67.3%) achieved complete remission (CR). The 2-year overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were 56.3% and 47.6%, respectively. In multivariate analysis, CR after induction treatment significantly improved the OS (p = 0.002) and PFS (p = 0.001). Among CR patients, allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (allo-PBSCT) significantly lowered the cumulative incidence of relapse (CIR) compared to autologous PBSCT (p = 0.043) and non-SCT (p = 0.001). Among patients undergoing allo-PBSCT in CR, early (within four induction courses) and late CR (after four induction courses) didn't impact the prognosis with similar 2-year OS (p = 0.590), PFS (p = 0.858), CIR (p = 0.50), and non-relapse mortality (NRM) (p = 0.110). Early and deferred allo-PBSCT for early CR patients also yielded similar 2-year OS (p = 0.640), PFS (p = 0.970), CIR (p = 0.994), and NRM (p = 0.974). As a time-dependent covariate, allo-PBSCT presented a positive effect on PFS (p = 0.018) and had a trend toward better OS (p = 0.064). These data suggested that allo-PBSCT should be considered for T-LBL patients upon achieving CR to enhance survival and reduce relapse risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":9126,"journal":{"name":"Bone Marrow Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142871335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jesús Duque-Afonso, Jürgen Finke, Maud Ngoya, Jacques-Emmanuel Galimard, Johannes Schetelig, Matthias Eder, Wolf Rösler, Gesine Bug, Andreas Neubauer, Matthias Edinger, Gerald G Wulf, Pavel Jindra, Hermann Einsele, Matthias Stelljes, Dominik Selleslag, Eva Maria Wagner-Drouet, Donald Bunjes, Alexandros Spyridonidis, Eolia Brissot, Arnon Nagler, Fabio Ciceri, Mohamad Mohty
{"title":"Comparison of fludarabine/melphalan (FM140) with fludarabine/melphalan/BCNU (FBM110) in patients with relapsed/refractory AML undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation - a registry study on behalf of the EBMT Acute Leukemia Working Party.","authors":"Jesús Duque-Afonso, Jürgen Finke, Maud Ngoya, Jacques-Emmanuel Galimard, Johannes Schetelig, Matthias Eder, Wolf Rösler, Gesine Bug, Andreas Neubauer, Matthias Edinger, Gerald G Wulf, Pavel Jindra, Hermann Einsele, Matthias Stelljes, Dominik Selleslag, Eva Maria Wagner-Drouet, Donald Bunjes, Alexandros Spyridonidis, Eolia Brissot, Arnon Nagler, Fabio Ciceri, Mohamad Mohty","doi":"10.1038/s41409-024-02499-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-024-02499-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The treatment of relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is associated with a dismal prognosis. The allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) is frequently performed as salvage therapy. Reduced intensity conditioning protocols have been developed with the aim of reducing the leukemia burden without increasing their toxicity. We compared the reduced intensity conditioning FM140 (fludarabine, 150 mg/m<sup>2</sup>; melphalan 140 mg/m<sup>2</sup>) with FBM110 (fludarabine 150 mg/m<sup>2</sup>; BCNU, also known as carmustine, 300-400 mg/m<sup>2</sup>; and melphalan 110 mg/m<sup>2</sup>). From the European Bone Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) Acute Leukemia Working Party registry, we identified 293 adult patients (FM140, n = 118 and FBM110, n = 175) with AML with relapsed/refractory disease prior to allo-HCT. There were some differences such as age (FM140 = 59.5 years vs. FBM110 = 65.1 years, p < 0.001) and graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) prophylaxis based on in vivo T-cell depletion (TCD, FM140 = 39% vs. FBM110 = 75%, p < 0.001). No differences were observed between FM140- and FBM110-treated patients regarding overall survival (OS) (2-year OS: 39.3% vs. 45.7%, p = 0.58), progression-free survival (PFS) (2-year PFS: 36.1% vs. 37.3%, p = 0.69), non-relapse mortality (NRM) (2-year NRM: 15.3% vs. 25.7%, p = 0.10) and relapse incidence (RI) (2-year RI: 48.6% vs. 37.0%, p = 0.7). In conclusion, despite differences in age and GvHD prophylaxis, AML patients with active disease undergoing allo-HCT after FBM110 conditioning showed similar outcomes compared to FM140.</p>","PeriodicalId":9126,"journal":{"name":"Bone Marrow Transplantation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142863468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amanda Blackmon, Michelle Afkhami, Dongyun Yang, Sally Mokhtari, Yazeed Samara, Hoda Pourhassan, Brian Ball, Amandeep Salhotra, Vaibhav Agrawal, Karamjeet Sandhu, Amrita Desai, Salman Otoukesh, Shukaib Arslan, Idoroenyi Amanam, Paul Koller, Jose Tinajero, Ahmed Aribi, Ibrahim Aldoss, Pamela Becker, Andy Artz, Haris Ali, Anthony Stein, Eileen Smith, Vinod Pullarkat, Stephen J. Forman, Guido Marcucci, Ryotaro Nakamura, Monzr M. Al Malki
{"title":"Fludarabine melphalan reduced intensity conditioning vs radiation-based myeloablative conditioning in patients undergoing allogeneic transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia with measurable residual disease","authors":"Amanda Blackmon, Michelle Afkhami, Dongyun Yang, Sally Mokhtari, Yazeed Samara, Hoda Pourhassan, Brian Ball, Amandeep Salhotra, Vaibhav Agrawal, Karamjeet Sandhu, Amrita Desai, Salman Otoukesh, Shukaib Arslan, Idoroenyi Amanam, Paul Koller, Jose Tinajero, Ahmed Aribi, Ibrahim Aldoss, Pamela Becker, Andy Artz, Haris Ali, Anthony Stein, Eileen Smith, Vinod Pullarkat, Stephen J. Forman, Guido Marcucci, Ryotaro Nakamura, Monzr M. Al Malki","doi":"10.1038/s41409-024-02491-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41409-024-02491-0","url":null,"abstract":"Patients with AML and measurable residual disease (MRD) undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) may benefit from myeloablative conditioning (MAC) when feasible to reduce relapse risk. Fludarabine-Melphalan (FluMel) is a common reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) regimen; however, data in MRD+ patients is sparse. We performed a retrospective review of AML patients who underwent their first HCT (2016–2021) without morphologic disease at City of Hope who had pre-transplant marrow evaluated for MRD using multicolor flow cytometry (MFC) and received radiation-based MAC or FluMel conditioning. We identified 312 patients; 44 with MRD+ disease pre-HCT. The 24-month overall survival (OS), leukemia-free survival (LFS) and cumulative incidence of relapse (CIR) were 47.7%, 40.9%, and 38.6% in MRD+, and 78.0%, 73.9%, and 14.6% in MRD− patients. Radiation-based MAC was given to 136 (43.5%) patients (n = 20 with MRD+) and FluMel was given to 174 (55.8%) patients (n = 24 with MRD+). In patients with MRD+, there was no statistically significant difference between those who received MAC vs. FluMel in 24-month OS (60% vs. 38%, p = 0.21), or CIR (35% vs. 42%, p = 0.59), respectively. Our data substantiates the adverse impact of MRD in patients with AML undergoing HCT; FluMel is a reasonable option for MRD+ patients unfit for MAC.","PeriodicalId":9126,"journal":{"name":"Bone Marrow Transplantation","volume":"60 2","pages":"165-174"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41409-024-02491-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142852597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}