Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children

SP Hunger, CG Mullighan - New England Journal of Medicine, 2015 - Mass Medical Soc
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Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: progress through collaboration

CH Pui, JJ Yang, SP Hunger, R Pieters… - Journal of Clinical …, 2015 - ascopubs.org
Purpose To review the impact of collaborative studies on advances in the biology and
treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children and adolescents. Methods A …

The emerging complexity of gene fusions in cancer

F Mertens, B Johansson, T Fioretos… - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Structural chromosome rearrangements may result in the exchange of coding or regulatory
DNA sequences between genes. Many such gene fusions are strong driver mutations in …

Redefining ALL classification: toward detecting high-risk ALL and implementing precision medicine

SP Hunger, CG Mullighan - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2015 - ashpublications.org
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the commonest childhood tumor and remains a
leading cause of cancer death in the young. In the last decade, microarray and sequencing …

New insights into the pathophysiology and therapy of adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia

E Jabbour, S O'Brien, M Konopleva, H Kantarjian - Cancer, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Significant advances have been made in the last decade toward a better understanding of
the disease pathogenesis and the development of novel therapies that target specific …

Genomics in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: insights and treatment implications

KG Roberts, CG Mullighan - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2015 - nature.com
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the commonest childhood cancer and an important
cause of morbidity from haematological malignancies in adults. In the past several years, we …

Genomics and drug profiling of fatal TCF3-HLF−positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia identifies recurrent mutation patterns and therapeutic options

U Fischer, M Forster, A Rinaldi, T Risch, S Sungalee… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
TCF3-HLF− positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is currently incurable. Using an
integrated approach, we uncovered distinct mutation, gene expression and drug response …

[HTML][HTML] Pathogenesis of myeloproliferative neoplasms

RC Skoda, A Duek, J Grisouard - Experimental hematology, 2015 - Elsevier
Major progress has been recently made in understanding the molecular pathogenesis of
myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN). Mutations in one of four genes—JAK2, MPL, CALR …

A phase 1 dosing study of ruxolitinib in children with relapsed or refractory solid tumors, leukemias, or myeloproliferative neoplasms: A Children's Oncology Group …

ML Loh, SK Tasian, KR Rabin, P Brown… - Pediatric blood & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background Ruxolitinib, an orally bioavailable JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor, may treat cancers with
CRLF2 and/or JAK pathway mutations. Procedure A phase 1 trial of ruxolitinib was …

Eradication of B-ALL using chimeric antigen receptor–expressing T cells targeting the TSLPR oncoprotein

H Qin, M Cho, W Haso, L Zhang… - Blood, The Journal …, 2015 - ashpublications.org
Adoptive transfer of T cells genetically modified to express chimeric antigen receptors
(CARs) targeting the CD19 B cell–associated protein have demonstrated potent activity …