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Hagop Kantarjian: Treatment-free remission in non-transplanted Ph+ ALL patients

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Feb 26, 2025, 16:33

Hagop Kantarjian: Treatment-free remission in non-transplanted Ph+ ALL patients

Hagop Kantarjian, Professor and Chair of the Department of Leukemia at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, posted on X about recent paper by Eitan Kugler et al., titled “Treatment-free remission in nontransplanted patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia” published on ACS Journals.

Authors: Eitan Kugler, Hagop Kantarjian, Elias Jabbour, Niranjan Khaire, Nicholas J. Short, Tapan M. Kadia, Fadi G. Haddad, Koji Sasaki, Rashmi Kanagal Shamanna, Rebecca Garris, Farhad Ravandi, Nitin Jain

“Treatment-free remission in non-transplanted Ph+ ALL patients is feasible in carefully selected pts. Those in CR1 (n=6) who maintained CMR for >48 mos did not relapse following TKI discontinuation.”

cancer Eitan Kugler Elias Jabbour Fadi G. Haddad Farhad Ravandi Hagop Kantarjian Koji Sasaki Nicholas J. Short Niranjan Khaire Nitin Jain OncoDaily Oncology Rashmi Kanagal-Shamanna Rebecca Garris Tapan M. Kadia

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