Improvement of Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Heavily Pretreated Patients with Lower-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes and High Transfusion Burden Treated with Imetelstat on the IMerge Phase 3 Trial
Sekeres M, Diez-Campelo M, Zeidan A, Platzbecker U, Regnault A, Creel K, Sengupta N, Wan Y, Sun L, Xia Q, Berry T, Dougherty S, Shah S, Navada S, Santini V, Valcárcel D. Improvement of Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Heavily Pretreated Patients with Lower-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes and High Transfusion Burden Treated with Imetelstat on the IMerge Phase 3 Trial. Blood 2023, 142: 6479. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2023-181103.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLower-risk myelodysplastic syndromesPatient-reported outcomesHigh transfusion burdenTransfusion burdenPlacebo groupMyelodysplastic syndromeTreatment groupsFunctional assessmentCancer Therapy-AnemiaPatient-reported fatigueTransfusion independence rateChronic Illness TherapyPhase 3 trialInferior overall survivalTransfusion-dependent anemiaLeast square meansImprovement of patientsPRO end pointsComposite scorePositive mean changesQuality of lifeFACT-AnTreat populationDyspnea scoreOverall survivalPatient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) of Luspatercept Versus Epoetin Alfa in Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agent (ESA)-Naïve, Transfusion-Dependent (TD), Lower-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes (LR-MDS): Results from the Phase 3 COMMANDS Study
Oliva E, Platzbecker U, Della Porta M, Garcia-Manero G, Santini V, Fenaux P, Shortt J, Komrokji R, Pelligra C, Guo S, Lord-Bessen J, Xiao H, Yucel A, Miteva D, Rose S, Kreitz S, Sekeres M, Zeidan A. Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) of Luspatercept Versus Epoetin Alfa in Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agent (ESA)-Naïve, Transfusion-Dependent (TD), Lower-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes (LR-MDS): Results from the Phase 3 COMMANDS Study. Blood 2023, 142: 4596. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2023-174660.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLower-risk myelodysplastic syndromesEORTC QLQ-C30Patient-reported outcomesErythropoietin-stimulating agentsEpoetin alfaQLQ-C30FACT-AnSustained improvementTreatment armsESA-naïveTransfusion-DependentTreatment tolerabilityStratified Cox proportional hazards regression modelDay 1Cox proportional hazards regression modelCancer Therapy-Anemia (FACT-An) questionnaireLife Questionnaire Core 30Proportional hazards regression modelsMajority of patientsTreatment side effectsPost-baseline visitTransfusion-dependent patientsErythropoiesis stimulating agentsHazards regression modelsPhase 3