Sanam Loghavi: Relapse Patterns in NPM1-Mutated AML After Venetoclax-Based Therapy
Aug 30, 2025, 20:20

Sanam Loghavi: Relapse Patterns in NPM1-Mutated AML After Venetoclax-Based Therapy

Sanam Loghavi, Associate Professor of Pathology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Medical Director of ECOG-ACRIN Leukemia Bank, and Editor in Chief of Image Bank at the American Society of Hematology, shared a post on X about a paper she co-authored with colleagues published in the American Journal of Hematology:

“We report the incidence of NPM1-wildtype relapses in patients treated with VEN-based frontline treatment in AML.

Overall, the absolute number of relapses in NPM1 AML after VEN is low

The fraction of NPM1-wildtype relapses is high with the high intensity of chemo backbone added to VEN.

NPM1 wildtype relapses occur later and often have MR mutations. And ALL (8/8) had a different flow immunophenotype compared to the original AML.

We proposed that these were ‘new’ AMLs, that arose from a common preleukemic (CH) precursor, but that the original NPM1-mutated AML was ‘cured’.”

Title: Outcomes and Patterns of Relapse of NPM1 Mutated Acute Myeloid Leukemia Treated With Venetoclax-Based Therapies

Authors: Wei-Ying Jen, Sanam Loghavi, Alexandre Bazinet, Alex Bataller, Ian Bouligny, Naval G. Daver, Ghayas C. Issa, Naszrin Arani, Emmanuel Almanza Huante, Abhishek Maiti, Guillermo Montalban-Bravo, Gautam Borthakur, Nicholas J. Short, Sherry Pierce, Elias Jabbour, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, Farhad Ravandi, Hagop M. Kantarjian, Courtney D. DiNardo, Tapan M. Kadia

You can read the Full Article in the American Journal of Hematology.

Sanam Loghavi: Relapse Patterns in NPM1-Mutated AML After Venetoclax-Based Therapy

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