Advancing diagnostics and therapy to reach universal cure in childhood ALL

R Pieters, CG Mullighan, SP Hunger - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2023 - ascopubs.org
Systemic combination chemotherapy and intrathecal chemotherapy markedly increased the
survival rate of children with ALL. In the past two decades, the use of minimal (measurable) …

Measurable residual disease (MRD)-testing in haematological and solid cancers

J Chen, RP Gale, Y Hu, W Yan, T Wang, W Zhang - Leukemia, 2024 - nature.com
There is considerable interest in and enthusiasm for quantitative tests for residual cancer
cells in the context of cancer therapy, a concept referred to as measurable residual disease …

Children's Oncology Group blueprint for research: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia

EA Raetz, D Bhojwani, M Devidas, L Gore… - Pediatric Blood & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cure rates for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common childhood cancer have
steadily improved over the past five decades. This is due to intensifying systemic therapy …

Genetic alterations and MRD refine risk assessment for KMT2A-rearranged B-cell precursor ALL in adults: a GRAALL study

R Kim, H Bergugnat, C Pastoret, F Pasquier, E Raffoux… - Blood, 2023 - ashpublications.org
Abstract KMT2A-rearranged (KMT2A-r) B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BCP-
ALL) is widely recognized as a high-risk leukemia in both children and adults. However …

Menin inhibitors in pediatric acute leukemia: a comprehensive review and recommendations to accelerate progress in collaboration with adult leukemia and the …

B Cuglievan, H Kantarjian, JE Rubnitz, TM Cooper… - Leukemia, 2024 - nature.com
Aberrant expression of HOX and MEIS1 family genes, as seen in KMT2A-rearranged,
NUP98-rearranged, or NPM1-mutated leukemias leads to arrested differentiation and …

Histone lysine methyltransferase-related neurodevelopmental disorders: current knowledge and saRNA future therapies

C Roth, H Kilpinen, MA Kurian, S Barral - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Neurodevelopmental disorders encompass a group of debilitating diseases presenting with
motor and cognitive dysfunction, with variable age of onset and disease severity. Advances …

Measurable residual disease (MRD)-testing in haematological cancers: A giant leap forward or sideways?

Q Shen, X Gong, Y Feng, Y Hu, T Wang, W Yan… - Blood Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Measurable residual disease (MRD)-testing is used in many haematological cancers to
estimate relapse risk and to direct therapy. Sometimes MRD-test results are used for …

Biological Markers of High-Risk Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

J He, F Munir, S Catueno, JS Connors, A Gibson… - Cancers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has seen significant
advances in treatment, yet children classified as high-risk still face challenging outcomes …

[HTML][HTML] Ruxolitinib inhibits the proliferation and induces the apoptosis of MLL-r ALL cells through inactivating JAK/STAT signaling pathway

XY Liao, DH Zhou, JP Fang, KY Qiu - Translational Pediatrics, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The childhood patients with mixed-lineage leukemia rearrangement (MLL-r)
gene have worse outcome than non-MLL, and thus often treated with high-risk …

Cytogenetics in the management of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Guidelines from the Groupe Francophone de Cytogénétique Hématologique (GFCH)

G Tueur, J Quessada, J De Bie, W Cuccuini… - Current Research in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cytogenetic analysis is mandatory at initial assessment of B-cell acute lymphoblastic
leukemia (B-ALL) due to its diagnostic and prognostic value. Results from chromosome …