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Venetoclax-enhanced reduced-intensity conditioning in older patients aged >= 55 years with high-risk myeloid malignancies undergoing allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation: A phase II study.

Older patients with high-risk blood cancers achieved strong 73% one-year survival with a modified chemotherapy regimen, offering improved outcomes.

Venetoclax-enhanced RIC (VEN-RIC) in older high-risk AML/MDS patients (>=55y) yielded 1-year PFS 72.5%, OS 73.8%, and NRM 10.6% with manageable toxicity; TP53 mutation was the strongest predictor of worse outcomes. This record was retained from the prior triage attempt for PubMed pipeline handoff.

What the study was

Study design
phase II single-arm prospective trial (n=50, median age 62)
Category
hematologic_malignancies
Maturity
Validated
Journal
Br J Haematol

Why it surfaced

Phase II evidence for VEN-RIC in older high-risk myeloid malignancy patients—a large, therapeutically challenging population—providing encouraging survival data for this novel conditioning approach.

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