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We can better understand outcomes in patients with a variety of ages, ethnicities, comorbidities, and exposures by using observational data. It can be challenging or even impossible to disentangle the diverse effects of dynamic elements like vaccination rates, patient behaviors, and COVID-19 pathogenicity. Randomized controlled trials involving blood cancer patients are required to fully assess the impact of COVID-19 therapies. The impact of both bivalent vaccines and prophylactic monoclonal antibodies, as well as ways to assure equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines and therapies, will all be determined by future study. Some of those studies must involve people who have hematologic malignancies.

This study provides evidence that older patients with Binet stage A CLL, including those in the oldest age groups, can receive the Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia International Prognostic Index (CLL-IPI). Because of the high median age in our study, we were also able to identify a relationship between del(17p) and age, which raises the possibility that age-adjusted prognostic tools could enhance CLL prediction. In cardiology, risk stratifications and recommendations for antilipid treatment have long taken into account the interaction between age and other risk factors for fatal cardiovascular disease, but in CLL, age is typically only considered as an additive factor in prognostic models.

To gain access to its primary experimental medication for a rare blood cancer and complement Blenrep, currently indicated as a treatment for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who received at least four prior therapies, the company decided to purchase American pharmaceutical company Sierra Oncology in April. However, in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, Blenrep did not achieve the primary endpoint of progression-free survival, according to a statement from GSK, which saw its shares fall 3% upon the announcement.

The CRc rate was higher with GIL + AZA than with AZA in FLT3mut+ AML patients who were not suitable for intensive chemotherapy. In addition, OS did not differ significantly between GIL + AZA and AZA in FLT3mut+ AML patients who were not suitable for intensive chemotherapy.

Lauren C. Pinter-Brown, MD, the Health Sciences Professor of Medicine and Dermatology at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Irvine, discusses the most common types of T-cell lymphoma, recent changes to its diagnosis and classification, standard approaches, treatment challenges, unmet needs, new treatments, promising areas of research, and other recommendations regarding its management.

HBCLs, not-otherwise specified (NOS), are rare and heterogeneous; other than having germinal center B-cell phenotype, and in up to 45%, a single-hit MYC rearrangement, they have no unifying immunophenotypic or cytogenetic characteristics. This review discusses the current clinicopathologic concept of HGBL, NOS, and looks at potential future taxonomy enrichments based on emerging molecular diagnostics.