Genetic basis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia

I Iacobucci, CG Mullighan - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2017 - ascopubs.org
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer, and despite cure
rates exceeding 90% in children, it remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality in …

T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a roadmap to targeted therapies

V Cordo', JCG van der Zwet, K Canté-Barrett… - Blood cancer …, 2021 - AACR
T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive hematologic malignancy
characterized by aberrant proliferation of immature thymocytes. Despite an overall survival …

The landscape of genomic alterations across childhood cancers

SN Gröbner, BC Worst, J Weischenfeldt, I Buchhalter… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Pan-cancer analyses that examine commonalities and differences among various cancer
types have emerged as a powerful way to obtain novel insights into cancer biology. Here we …

IKZF1plus Defines a New Minimal Residual Disease–Dependent Very-Poor Prognostic Profile in Pediatric B-Cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

M Stanulla, E Dagdan, M Zaliova, A Möricke… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Somatic deletions that affect the lymphoid transcription factor–coding gene IKZF1
have previously been reported as independently associated with a poor prognosis in …

Ex vivo drug response profiling detects recurrent sensitivity patterns in drug-resistant acute lymphoblastic leukemia

V Frismantas, MP Dobay, A Rinaldi… - Blood, The Journal …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Drug sensitivity and resistance testing on diagnostic leukemia samples should provide
important functional information to guide actionable target and biomarker discovery. We …

Mutational landscape and patterns of clonal evolution in relapsed pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

E Waanders, Z Gu, SM Dobson, Ž Antić… - Blood cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) remains a leading cause of childhood
cancer-related death. Prior studies have shown clonal mutations at relapse often arise from …

T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: biomarkers and their clinical usefulness

V Bardelli, S Arniani, V Pierini, D Di Giacomo, T Pierini… - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemias (T-ALL) are immature lymphoid tumors localizing in the
bone marrow, mediastinum, central nervous system, and lymphoid organs. They account for …

Clinical resistance to crenolanib in acute myeloid leukemia due to diverse molecular mechanisms

H Zhang, S Savage, AR Schultz, D Bottomly… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
FLT3 mutations are prevalent in AML patients and confer poor prognosis. Crenolanib, a
potent type I pan-FLT3 inhibitor, is effective against both internal tandem duplications and …

Mutational landscape, clonal evolution patterns, and role of RAS mutations in relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia

K Oshima, H Khiabanian… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Although multiagent combination chemotherapy is curative in a significant fraction of
childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients, 20% of cases relapse and most die …

The genomic landscape of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia and precision medicine opportunities

TH Tran, SP Hunger - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer and constitutes
approximately 25% of cancer diagnoses among children under the age of 15 (Howlader et …