Risk Stratification for Patients with Myelodysplastic Syndrome

Bosutinib has a new indication in leukemia as a well as a newly-approved formulation.

For Leukemia Awareness Month, Salman Fazal, MD, and Tibor Kovacsovics, MD, discussed the importance of biomarker testing and targeting in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.

According to a presentation at SOHO 2023, overall survival was boosted among patients from the QuANTUM-First trial who went to transplant in first remission and were treated with quizartinib for their FLT3-ITD-positive acute myeloid leukemia.

Allogeneic HCT has shown promise as definitive treatment for patients with relapsed or refractory AML.

In the third article of this series, Eytan M. Stein, MD, discusses the treatment landscape for patients with lower-risk MDS and reviews follow-up data from the IMerge clinical trial.