2021
Minimal Toxicity Seen When Pembrolizumab Is Added to Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and Persistently Detectable Minimal Residual Disease: Early Results from an Ongoing Phase II Trial (ECOG-ACRIN EA9171)
Zeidan A, Roopcharan K, Radich J, Bewersdorf J, Bhatt V, Sharon E, Little R, Gore S, Caldwell A, Luger S, Litzow M. Minimal Toxicity Seen When Pembrolizumab Is Added to Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and Persistently Detectable Minimal Residual Disease: Early Results from an Ongoing Phase II Trial (ECOG-ACRIN EA9171). Blood 2021, 138: 3613. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2021-145015.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchUndetectable minimal residual diseaseClinical Trials CommitteeTherapy-free remissionCombination of TKIG3 adverse eventsImmune-related AEAdverse eventsTrials CommitteeMinimal residual diseaseSafety cohortTKI discontinuationTKI therapyPD-L1Residual diseasePilot phase II clinical trialPD-1/PD-L1Detectable minimal residual diseaseImmune-related adverse eventsNon-hematologic adverse eventsAnti-PD-1 antibodyOngoing phase II trialBCR-ABLPhase II clinical trialAdvisory CommitteeDaiichi Sankyo
2020
Blast MRD CML 1 Trial: Blockade of PD-1 Added to Standard Therapy to Target Measurable Residual Disease (MRD) in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)- a Phase II Study of Adding the Anti-PD-1 Pembrolizumab to Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and Persistently Detectable Minimal Residual Disease: A Trial of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (EA9171)
Zeidan A, Wang V, Radich J, Bewersdorf J, Bhatt V, Sharon E, Gore S, Luger S, Litzow M. Blast MRD CML 1 Trial: Blockade of PD-1 Added to Standard Therapy to Target Measurable Residual Disease (MRD) in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)- a Phase II Study of Adding the Anti-PD-1 Pembrolizumab to Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and Persistently Detectable Minimal Residual Disease: A Trial of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (EA9171). Blood 2020, 136: 1. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2020-137734.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchUndetectable minimal residual diseaseChronic myeloid leukemiaMeasurable residual diseaseTyrosine kinase inhibitorsTKI discontinuationTKI therapyMinimal residual diseaseCML patientsResidual diseaseMyeloid leukemiaBristol-Myers SquibbPembrolizumab therapyAdverse eventsPD-1T cellsCML cellsAnti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapyBlast phase chronic myeloid leukemiaPilot phase II clinical trialThird-line tyrosine kinase inhibitorsAllogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantAnti-PD-1 monoclonal antibodyPD-1/PD-L1Anti-PD-1 pembrolizumabDetectable minimal residual diseaseImmune checkpoint inhibition in myeloid malignancies: Moving beyond the PD-1/PD-L1 and CTLA-4 pathways
Bewersdorf JP, Shallis RM, Zeidan AM. Immune checkpoint inhibition in myeloid malignancies: Moving beyond the PD-1/PD-L1 and CTLA-4 pathways. Blood Reviews 2020, 45: 100709. PMID: 32487480, DOI: 10.1016/j.blre.2020.100709.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsImmune checkpoint inhibitorsMyeloid malignanciesPD-1/PD-L1CTLA-4 pathwayImmune checkpoint inhibitionAcute myeloid leukemiaSafe combination therapyICI therapyImmunologic landscapeCheckpoint inhibitorsDisease coursePD-L1Checkpoint inhibitionMyelodysplastic syndromeCombination therapyMechanisms of resistanceClinical trialsMyeloid leukemiaClinical developmentPotential biomarkersNovel targetPatientsMalignancyTherapyBiomarkers