This podcast series provides important up-to-the-minute information on MDS including diagnosis, treatment and clinical research.
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This episode features Dr. Nikolaos Papadantonakis from the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and Dr. Amer Zeidan from the Yale School of Medicine, discussing research on Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) presented at the 2025 European Hematology Association (EHA) Congress in Milan.
1 Feb 2025
Pathogenesis and inflammaging in MDS [MDS Professional Report]
Dr. Moshe Mittelman is hosting the world-leading expert Dr. Michael Savona and they have an attractive conversation on several mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of MDS, including the interaction between genetics, inflammation and aging.
15 Dec 2024
Treatment of lower-risk MDS [MDS Professional Report]
Prof. Uwe Platzbecker and Prof. Moshe Mittelman discuss the latest therapeutic options for patients with lower-risk MDS, empowering clinicians to deliver optimal care.
1 Dec 2024
Treatment for Higher-risk MDS [MDS Professional Report]
Prof. Nicolaus Kroger and Prof. Moshe Mittelman discuss the latest therapeutic modalities for higher-risk MDS patients, including hematopoietic transplantation to improve treatment outcomes.
27 May 2024
Update on Higher-Risk MDS - Lessons from 2023 ASH [MDS Professional Report]
Dr. Nicolaos Papadantonakis from Emory Atlanta and Dr. Moshe Mittelman from Tel-Aviv, describe several updated abstracts from 2023 ASH with a special focus on Higher-risk MDs, and providing their take home messages.
27 Mar 2024
New trials to address the anemia of lower-risk MDS [MDS Professional Report]
Drs Nikolaos Papadantonakis of Emory, Atlanta, US, and Moshe Mittelman, Tel-Aviv, Israel, discuss trials presented in American Society of Hematology (ASH) 2023 meeting. They provide some data on luspatercept, imetelstat, roxodustat and Ker-050.
1 May 2023
Transfusions and quality of life [MDS Professional Report]
Prof. Rena Buckstein from Toronto, and Prof. Moshe Mittelman from Tel-Aviv discuss issues related to RBC transfusions, the hemoglobin threshold for transfusion and related quality of life issues.
5 Dec 2022
Bone marrow failure disorders in childhood [MDS Professional Report]
Prof. Akiko Shimamura of Harvard Medical School, Boston, a world known expert of pediatric hematology discusses with Prof. Guillermo Sanz ,of Valencia and Prof. Moshe Mittelman, of Tel Aviv, the various aspects of bone marrow failure including childhood MDS, the differences of this medical problem between adults and children, the unique approach to sick kids and the increasing number of promising therapeutic options.
28 Sept 2022
The role of genetics in MDS management [MDS Professional Report]
Drs. Rafael Bejar (San Diego) and Moshe Mittelman (Tel Aviv) discuss several papers highlighting the role of genetics in MDS diagnosis, follow up and prediction of treatment. They also discuss the role of the newly approved luspatercept in the treatment of anemic transfusion-dependent patients with lower-risk MDS
6 Feb 2022
MDS in ASH 2021 – Are we already in the molecular era? [MDS Professional Report]
Drs. Moshe Mittelman, of The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and Drorit
Merkel, of the Sheba Medical Center, both from Tel Aviv University, Israel,
discuss several important presentations from the recent 2021 ASH meeting.
They focus on the new IPSS-M classification, discuss the approach to the
MDS patient who is currently defined by IPSS/R as belonging to the /lower-
risk group but in fact the disease behaves like a higher-risk. Finally, they
discuss issues regarding the treatment of patients with HR-MDS: What can be
added to hypomethylating agents ? Targeted therapy with IDH1/2 inhibition
and more…
22 Sept 2021
Do immune check inhibitors have a role in the treatment of higher-risk MDS? [MDS Professional Report]
Chien Aza – Pembro - BJH
The combination of azacitidine and pembrolizumab may be a potential effective regimen for patients with higher-risk MDS and may lead to the introduction of an important class of medications into MDS practice
Nazha, Prog model – JCO
A personalized prediction model, based on clinical and genomic data, outperformed established prognostic models in MDS. The use of digital tools allow us to manage big data taken from large numbers of patients and include them in the newly developed diagnostic and prognostic models.
Keundgen , t-MDS- Leukemia
Therapy-related MDS should be classified as a separate entity distinct from other WHO-classified t-myeloid neoplasms, which would enhance treatment decisions and facilitate the inclusion of t-MDS patients into clinical studies.
Strapatsas, PLT, Ann Hem
The authors re-confirm the importance of PLT count as a prognostic factor in MDS, both at presentation and during the disease course. Bleeding is a leading (3rd ) cause of death in these patients.
2 Jun 2021
Will Venetoclax Become The New Standard? [MDS Professional Report]
We will discuss the addition of venetoclax to hypomethylating agents in the treatment of advanced myeloid neoplasms, especially higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes.We will then report a study testing the efficacy and safety of imetelstat, a new telomerase-inhibitor, in the treatment of patients with lower-risk MDS and anemia following ESA failure.We will then review an interesting therapeutic approach to improve or restore erythroid response by adding lenalidomide to MDS patients treated with erythropoietin but lost the response.Finally, we will return to the "hot" topic of targeting the TP53 mutation, by summarizing an important clinical trial using a TP53 activator.
30 Mar 2021
Don't withhold anti-neoplastic treatment from your hematological patients infected by COVID [MDS Professional Report]
PAPER 1Authors: Vijenthira A. et al. (Princess Margaret, Toronto)Title: Outcomes of patients with hematologic malignancies and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 3377 patientsDescription:⦁ About a third of hospitalized adult patients with hematologic malignancy and COVID-19 – dye. ⦁ No need to withhold anti-cancer treatment from these patients.
Paper 2Authors: P. Fenaux; U. Platzbecker; A. List and colleagues, multicenterTitle: Luspatercept in Patients with Lower-Risk Myelodysplastic SyndromesDescription: Luspatercept, an activin receptor derived agent, improves the anemia in LR-MDS patients. Thus, we have another approved anti-anemic agent in addition to ESAs for these patients.
Paper 3Authors: David Henry et al. , multicenter ((Disclosure – I am a co-author)Title: Oral Roxadustat Demonstrates Efficacy in Anemia Secondary to Lower-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndrome Irrespective of Ring Sideroblasts and Baseline Erythropoietin LevelsDescription: Roxadustat, an oral hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor, is another investigated effective agent for the anemia in LR-MDS.
Paper 4Title: Randomized phase 2 trial of pevonedistat plus azacitidine versus azacitidine for higher-risk MDS/CMML or low-blast AMLAuthors: M.A. Sekeres, and colleagues, multicenter, multunationalDescription: Pevonedistat, a NEDD8 inhibitor, together with azacitidine, improves the response and prognosis in HR-MDS patients.
25 Feb 2021
TP53 mutations – were they born equal [MDS Professional Report]
Bernard E et al: In the first presented study, Dr. Elza Bernard and colleagues deliver an important lesson about the high-risk mutation TP53. That is: not all of them are infeed associated with poor prognosis.
Sallman DA et al:A recent study led by Dr. David Sallman tested the efficacy of the combination azacitidine and eprenetapopt (formerly APR-246), a TP53-Mutant activator, in patients with higher-risk MDS.
Goll JB et al:One of the more interesting presentations in the last ASH 2020, was that of Dr. Yohannes Goll and others. They showed that adding molecular analysis they can improve the diagnostic accuracy. Indeed 7 genes significantly reduced pathological misclassification.
Platzbecker U et al:A group of international investigators, led by Dr. Uwe Platzbecker, from Leipzig, reported in last ASH (2020) their encouraging experience with imetelstat, a telomerase-inhibitor to improve anemia in lower-risk MDS patients after ESA failure.
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