Guillermo Garcia-Manero

6 days ago | nature.com | Alex Bataller |Hannah Goulart |Ghayas C. Issa |Courtney DiNardo |Tapan M Kadia |Ian Bouligny | +12 more

AbstractAcute myeloid leukemia (AML) with KMT2A rearrangement (KMT2Ar) has poor outcomes. We analyzed 1,611 patients with AML and 4.3% demonstrated rearrangements in KMT2A. Signaling-related genes (NRAS 30%, KRAS 23% and FLT3-TKD 16%) were the most frequently mutated in patients with KMT2Ar AML.

2 weeks ago | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Guillermo Garcia-Manero

AbstractDisease overview: The myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a very heterogeneous group of myeloid disorders characterized by peripheral blood cytopenias and increased risk of transformation to acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). MDS occurs more frequently in older males and in individuals with prior exposure to cytotoxic therapy. Diagnosis: Diagnosis of MDS is based on morphological evidence of dysplasia upon visual examination of a bone marrow aspirate and biopsy.

2 weeks ago | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Guillermo Garcia-Manero

AbstractPrior experience indicated that use of higher doses of cytarabine during induction for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with a histone deacetylase inhibitor resulted in high response rates. S1203 was a randomized multicenter trial for previously untreated patients aged 18-60 with AML which compared daunorubicin and cytarabine (DA), idarubicin with higher dose cytarabine (IA) and IA with vorinostat (IA + V). The primary endpoint was event free survival (EFS).

1 month ago | nature.com | Jayastu Senapati |Guillermo Garcia-Manero |Courtney DiNardo |Gautam Borthakur |Tapan M Kadia |Elias Jabbour | +8 more

Despite the improvement in overall outcomes of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), some high-risk disease subsets continue to fare dismally. AML with TP53 aberrations (mutations, deletions) is one such subset of high-risk AML with a median survival of about 6–9 months [1,2,3].

1 month ago | nature.com | Mahesh Swaminathan |Courtney DiNardo |Naveen Pemmaraju |Guillermo Garcia-Manero |Ghayas C. Issa |Gautam Borthakur | +9 more

To the Editor:The advent of VEN (VEN) has changed the treatment paradigm of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Currently, venetoclax (VEN), in combination with a hypomethylating agent (HMA), is approved for the treatment of adult patients with AML unsuitable for intensive chemotherapy or frontline treatment of patients ≥75 years [1].