15-days duration of venetoclax combined with azacitidine in the treatment of relapsed/refractory high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes: A retrospective single-center study.
Hematol Oncol
; 41(3): 546-554, 2023 Aug.
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The treatment of patients with refractory and/or relapsed (R/R) high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (HR-MDS) remains a daunting clinical challenge. Venetoclax is a selective BCL-2 inhibitor, which combined with hypomethylating agents (HMAs), increased responses and prolonged survival in unfit and previously untreated acute myeloid leukemia. We performed a retrospective study of patients with R/R HR-MDS receiving combination azacytidine (AZA) plus 15-days duration of venetoclax (VEN-15d) in order to determine their efficacy and toxicity in this context. We showed that the overall response rate was 57.2% (20/35) and the median over survival was 14 months in R/R MDS. The most common treatment-emergent adverse events were peripheral blood cytopenias and infectious complications. Our retrospective study showed that the real-world experience of treating R/R MDS with AZA plus VEN-15d highlights an encouraging response rate with myelosuppression being the major toxicity. Of note, VEN-15d with AZA may salvage patients failing to respond optimally to HMAs and reduce the disease-burden for subsequent allogeneic stem cell transplantation in our analysis. These data of combination AZA plus VEN-15d in R/R MDS warrant further prospective evaluation in clinical trials.
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Assunto principal:
Síndromes Mielodisplásicas
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Leucemia Mieloide Aguda
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Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Humans
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Hematol Oncol
Ano de publicação:
2023
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Article