Clinical practice recommendation on hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia patients with FLT3internal tandem duplication: A position statement from the Acute Leukemia Working Party of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Bazarbachi, A.; Bug, G.; Baron, Frédéric; Brissot, E.; Ciceri, F.; Dalle, I. A.; Döhner, H.; Esteve, J.; Floisand, Y.; Giebel, S.; Gilleece, M.; Gorin, N.-C.; Jabbour, E.; Aljurf, M.; Kantarjian, H.; Kharfan-Dabaja, M.; Labopin, M.; Lanza, F.; Malard, F.; Peric, Z.; Prebet, T.; Ravandi, F.; Ruggeri, A.; Sanz, J.; Schmid, C.; Shouval, R.; Spyridonidis, A.; Versluis, J.; Vey, N.; Savani, B. N.; Nagler, A.; Mohty, M.

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Clinical practice recommendation on hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia patients with FLT3internal tandem duplication: A position statement from the Acute Leukemia Working Party of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Bazarbachi, A.; Bug, G.; Baron, Frédéric et al.

2020 • In Haematologica, 105 (6), p. 1507-1516

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[en] The FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) gene is mutated in 25-30% of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Because of the poor prognosis associated with FLT3-internal tandem duplication mutated AML, allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (SCT) was commonly performed in first complete remission. Remarkable progress has been made in frontline treatments with the incorporation of FLT3 inhibitors and the development of highly sensitive minimal/measurable residual disease assays. Similarly, recent progress in allogeneic hematopoietic SCT includes improvement of transplant techniques, the use of haplo-identical donors in patients lacking an HLA matched donor, and the introduction of FLT3 inhibitors as post-transplant maintenance therapy. Nevertheless, current transplant strategies vary between centers and differ in terms of transplant indications based on the internal tandem duplication allelic ratio and concomitant nucleophosmin-1 mutation, as well as in terms of post-transplant maintenance/consolidation. This review generated by international leukemia or transplant experts, mostly from the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, attempts to develop a position statement on best approaches for allogeneic hematopoietic SCT for AML with FLT3-internal tandem duplication including indications for and modalities of such transplants and on the potential optimization of post-transplant maintenance with FLT inhibitors. © 2020 Ferrata Storti Foundation

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Bazarbachi, A.; Bone Marrow Transplantation Program, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Physiological Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Bug, G.; Department of Medicine 2, Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Baron, Frédéric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > I3-Hematology

Brissot, E.; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC University of Paris 06, INSERM, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Hematology Department, AP-HP, Saint Antoine Hospital, Paris, France

Ciceri, F.; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Dalle, I. A.; Bone Marrow Transplantation Program, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Döhner, H.; Department of Internal Medicine III, Ulm University Hospital, Ulm, Germany

Esteve, J.; Hematology Department, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Spain

Floisand, Y.; Department of Hematology, Oslo University Hospital - Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway, Center for Cancer Cell Reprogramming, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Montebello, Oslo, Norway

Giebel, S.; Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Oncohematology, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute, Oncology Center, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice, Poland

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Haematologica

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