Adam Fisch, MD, PhD, a clinical fellow in molecular genetic pathology at the Brigham’s Women’s Hospital, discusses the key points from a patient case he presented at the 2019 Association for Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting and Expo, in which the patient with acute myeloid leukemia harboring a FLT3-TKD mutation lost the mutation following relapse on gilteritinib.
Adam Fisch, MD, PhD, a clinical fellow in molecular genetic pathology at the Brigham’s Women’s Hospital, discusses the key points from a patient case he presented at the 2019 Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) Annual Meeting and Expo (AMP 2019), in which the patient with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) harboring aFLT3-TKD mutation lost the mutation following relapse on gilteritinib (Xospata).
The FLT3 tyrosine kinase inhibitor gilteritinib, which wasapproved by the FDA in November of 2018 for adult patients withFLT3-mutant AML, is efficacious in many different patients withFLT3-mutant AML, but the case of the patient losing the mutation upon relapse is unexpected. This kind of event has not been reported much in literature, and there is not a lot of discussion about the disappearance of aFLT3-TKD following relapse on a TKI, Fisch says.
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