The insertion site of FLT3-ITD was available in 106 of 118 patients (Fig. We have no information on the treatment received by the remaining patients. Google Scholar, MM Patnaik 2018 The importance of FLT3 mutational analysis in acute myeloid leukemia Leuk. These combinations appear to improve the efficacy over single agent gilteritinib and could be considered if there is expertise in using such an approach, For patients relapsing while on gilteritinib or soon after gilteritinib based therapy a combination of azacitidine with sorafenib or azacitinde with venetoclax or gemtuzumab based approaches may be considered as salvage options (with clinical trials being clearly the best option if available). PubMed The NPM1/FLT3-ITD patients had normal karyotypes. Given the heterogeneity of treatments received and the scarce number of ISs in TKD1, we did not perform statistical analysis. The . Any variant allele frequency data were reported rarely. Patients diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) were excluded. Prognostic significance of FLT3-ITD length in AML patients treated with intensive regimens. Article No statistically significant differences were found (P=0.4) (Fig. We evaluate these patients on a case by case basis and may consider maintenance with 45 consolidation cycles of CLIA or FAI with FLT3i followed by FLT3i+/HMA maintenance for two years vs ASCT based on donor availability, age, performance status, MRD negativity, and patient preference. evaluated the impact of AR in 323 patients with newly diagnosed FLT3-ITDmut AML. FLT3 plays a role in cell survival, proliferation and differentiation of hematopoietic progenitor cells. The origin and evolution of mutations in acute myeloid leukemia. Front. Secondary mutations as mediators of resistance to targeted therapy in leukemia. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Progr. We tried to validate the thresholds of ITD length previously published (i.e., 39bp and 70bp) in intensivelytreated AML patients (n=161). Mead, A. J. et al. Sorafenib maintenance after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia with FLT3internal tandem duplication mutation (SORMAIN). Br. We found a statistically significant correlation among SF3B1, WT1 and EZH2 mutations and ITD length. Zarrinkar, P. P. et al. Pratz, K. W. et al. . Higher daunorubicin exposure benefits FLT3 mutated acute myeloid leukemia. FLT3-ITDs show great variation in size (ranging from 3 to more than 400 base pairs (bp)), insertion sites (ISs), allelic ratios (ARs) and the number of clones5. Sci Rep 11, 20745 (2021). and JM.A. The main patient and disease characteristics were collected retrospectively, including demographic characteristics (age, sex), cytomorphologic assessments confirming the AML diagnosis (according to routine site practice), cytogenetics, molecular studies, first-line treatment approach, disease response assessment and disease follow-up. FLT3-ITD is located within exon 14, corresponding to JMD, in 70% of AML patients, while 30% of ITDs span exon 15, corresponding to the TKD1 domain. Hematology Department, Hospital Universitario Fundacin Jimnez Daz, Avenida Reyes Catlicos, 2, 28040, Madrid, Spain, Tamara Castao-Bonilla,Juan M. Alonso-Dominguez,Carlos Blas&Jose L. Lpez-Lorenzo, Instituto de Investigacin Sanitaria (IIS-FJD), Hospital Universitario Fundacin Jimnez Daz, Madrid, Spain, Tamara Castao-Bonilla,Juan M. Alonso-Dominguez,Carlos Blas,Jose L. 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Off-target resistance includes clonal evolution during FLT3i therapy even when FLT3-ITDmut clone is lost70. Inhibition of mutant FLT3 receptors in leukemia cells by the small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor PKC412. 135, 397402 (1986). 38, 29933002 (2020). Among the FLT3mut patients, response rates were numerically higher (33%) and remission duration was longer (31 versus 16 weeks, P=0.09) in those who were naive to treatment with FLT3 inhibitors compared with those who had been exposed to prior FLT3 inhibitors. SORMAIN, a placebo-controlled randomized phase II trial evaluated post-transplant sorafenib maintenance in patients with FLT3-ITDmut AML with RFS post-ASCT as the primary endpoint. *C1 D14: Perform bone marrow biopsy; if bone marrow shows <5% blasts and/or <5% cellularity/insufficient sampleStop venetoclax and FLT3i on D14. (C) OS according to the FLT3-ITD length and allelic ratio. FLT3-ITD mutational load, expressed as an AR determined by fragment length analysis, has a clear prognostic value and is, therefore, included in the genetic prognostic classification of the European Leukemia Net (ELN) published in 20178. Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Blood 99, 43264335 (2002). Phase 2 study of azacytidine plus sorafenib in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and FLT-3 internal tandem duplication mutation. We administer a second-generation FLT3i (ideally gilteritinib) continuously with HMA from cycle 1 Day 1. The favorable prognostic molecular mutations, such as NPM-1 and CEBPA, are uncommon in elderly AML . The CRc rates (47%) were similar between both doses, and the frequency of QTcF >500ms was significantly reduced (35%) with these lower doses of quizartinib35. McMahon, C. M. et al. 10-day decitabine with venetoclax for newly diagnosed intensive chemotherapy ineligible, and relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukaemia: a single-centre, phase 2 trial. We believe that triplets may be the optimal way to use FLT3i to improve long-term survival and cure rates in older patients, able to tolerate this approach. Phase 3, Multicenter, Open-label Study of Gilteritinib, Gilteritinib plus Azacitidine, or Azacitidine Alone in Newly Diagnosed FLT3-Mutated (FLT3mut+) Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Patients Ineligible for Intensive Induction Chemotherapy (ASH, 2020). Sorafenib is a first generation, type II multi-kinase FLT3i26 that demonstrated safety and efficacy (14/15 CR) in combination with the standard anthracycline/cytarabine induction therapy in newly diagnosed FLT3mut AML27. Quizartinib, a second-generation, type I FLT3i is active against FLT3, KIT, CSF1R, PDGFR, and RET kinase34. The non-intensive chemotherapy group received FLUGA (fludarabine+Ara-C), n=22; azacytidine, n=15; and decitabine, n=5, and one patient was treated with IDA-FLAG-Lite. Our results, alongside previous publications, confirm that FLT3-ITD length lacks prognostic value and clinical applicability. Furthermore, ten patients with mutated WT1 showed a median ITD length of 77bp,and 58 patients with non-mutated WT1 showed a median ITD length of 42bp (P=0.021). volume11, Articlenumber:20745 (2021) Blood 136, 810 (2020). 19, 889903 (2018). CR or CRi was achieved in 70% of the patients in both groups (P=0.9). We introduce venetoclax with a ramp-up when the WBC is <10,000/L to decrease the risk of tumor lysis syndrome. Cortes, J. E. et al. The study protocol was conducted following the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethics Committee for Clinical Research of the Hospital UniversitarioFundacin Jimnez Daz (PIC169-18_FJD). Midostaurin plus chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia with a FLT3 mutation. Prognostic impact of low allelic ratio FLT3- ITD and NPM1 mutation in acute myeloid leukemia Prognostic impact of low allelic ratio FLT3- ITD and NPM1 mutation in acute myeloid leukemia Blood Adv. Am. (A) Overall survival. Burnett, A. K., Russell, N. H. & Hills, R. K. Group obotUKNCRIAMLS. Our results, alongside those of other non-significant reports, lead us to believe that FLT3-ITD length has neither prognostic value nor possible clinical application. Our median ITD length was 48bp (range=3bp to 231bp), similar to previous studies12,14,17. Two cases with an NPM1 mut missense each occurred concomitant with type-A mutation. Educ. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00050-x, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00050-x. Swaminathan, M. et al. 1 FLT3 gene is one of the most frequently mutated genes in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and is reported in 25-30% of AML patients. J. Hematol. The median OS was 1.3years (CI: 0.71.9) and 1.4years (CI: 0.91.9), respectively (P=0.9). 93, E202E205 (2018). Correspondence to Clinical trial enrollment (if available) is always the first option, in both frontline and R/R FLT3mut AML. If material is not included in the articles Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. Juan M. Alonso-Dominguez. Information regarding the ITD insertion site and mutational status of another 38 genes recurrently mutated in myeloid neoplasms was available in 106 and 118 patients, respectively. Tallman, M. S. et al. Lancet Haematol. & Ley, C., Network CGAR. 10, 588876- (2020). Sorafenib maintenance in patients with FLT3-ITD acute myeloid leukaemia undergoing allogeneic haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation: an open-label, multicentre, randomised phase 3 trial. Analysis of FLT3-ITD insertion sites from 106 FLT3-ITD-positive AML patients. Am. Although activity was seen, the response rates were overall modest with this combination and the combination of HMA with midostaurin is not one that we routinely use or recommend for frontline FLT3-mutated AML47. The combination continues to enroll. Statistically significant results were not observed for any other gene in this analysis. Additionally, the area under the ROC curve, which serves as an indicator of the diagnostic capacity of the ITD length as a whole, was 0.504. Patients with NPM1-/FLT3- showed complex karyotype (24%) and t(8;21) (8%). 5 e336, S-B Liu 2019 Impact of FLT3-ITD length on prognosis of acute myeloid leukemia Haematologica 104 e9 e12, X Jiang 2018 Influence of FLT3-ITD mutation and length on the treatment response and prognosis in cytogenetically normal AML patients Blood 132 5245 5245, C Allen 2013 The importance of relative mutant level for evaluating impact on outcome of KIT, FLT3 and CBL mutations in core-binding factor acute myeloid leukemia Leukemia 27 1891 1901, X Quan J Deng 2020 Core binding factor acute myeloid leukemia: Advances in the heterogeneity of KIT, FLT3, and RAS mutations (Review) Mol. Dhner, H. et al. In our experienced cases FLT3-ITD mutation in MDS showed shorter duration to AML transformation and very poor prognosis. Quizartinib is also being evaluated in combination with CPX-351 (NCT04209725) and with CLIA (NCT04047641) in treatment naive and R/R FLT3mut AML. 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In patients with FLT3mut AML unsuitable for intensive chemotherapy, azacitidine with venetoclax demonstrated encouraging CR/CRi rates (5570%) and a median OS of 13.3 months64 which prompted the inclusion of this combination approach as part of NCCN AML guidelines (Fig. In general, AML patients with intermediate-risk cytogenetics and with a FLT3-ITD mutation have a significantly poorer prognosis with an increased relapse risk and decreased . The prognostic value of a FLT3 mutation in the tyrosine kinase domain (FLT3-TKD), which has a lower incidence in AML (approximately 7-10% of all cases), is uncertain. Ravandi, F. et al. An analysis of OS censoring at the time of allo-HSCT did not yield significant results (data not shown). The CRc rates with quizartinib were similar to prior studies (48.2%), and 32% patients on the quizartinib arm underwent ASCT compared with 11% with salvage chemotherapy. Levis turned to FLT3-ITD mutations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) to highlight the challenges with targeted therapy. J. Hematol. The median OS was 1.0years [CI not calculable (NC)], 2.3years (CI: 1.23.5), 1.6years (CI: 0.62.6) and 1.0years (CI: 0.81.2), respectively (P=0.9). However, emerging data does suggest that patients with FLT3-ITDmut AR<0.5 and NPM1 co-mutation without concurrent high-risk mutations such as DNMT3A, TP53, TET2, or high-risk cytogenetics may be a more favorable subset, who may be considered for induction, consolidation followed by maintenance therapy without ASCT on a case by case basis if they achieve early MRD negativity using a highly sensitive MRD assay. Ann Hematol. and P.M.; Data curation, J.M.A. DiNardo, C. D. et al. J. Hematol. J. Med. Phase I/II trial of the combination of midostaurin (PKC412) and 5-azacytidine for patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome. Retrospectively, we investigated the prognostic and predictive. Unlike midostaurin, quizartinib monotherapy, even at lower doses demonstrated significant marrow remissions in R/R FLT3mut AML35,36,37. DiNardo, C. D. et al. Patients were classified into four therapeutic groups according to the first-line approach: intensive chemotherapy (IC), n=161; non-intensive therapy, n=43; clinical trial, n=15; and best supportive care (BSC) only, n=7. Use the Previous and Next buttons to navigate the slides or the slide controller buttons at the end to navigate through each slide. FLT3 is a receptor tyrosine kinase with important roles in hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell survival and proliferation. Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative, Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports (2022), Current Treatment Options in Oncology (2022), Blood Cancer Journal (Blood Cancer J.) Molecular patterns of response and treatment failure after frontline venetoclax combinations in older patients with AML. FLT3 -ITD and FLT3 point mutations show a gain-of-function phenotype with distinct signalling properties in vitro. The median OS was 1.7years (CI 04.0), 1.7years (CI NC), 1.3years (CI 0.32.3), 1.5years (CI NC), 1.2years (CI: 0.52.0) and 2.4years (CI NC), respectively. Rollig, C. et al. PubMed and JavaScript. Blood 100, 43724380 (2002). Oncogene 21, 25552563 (2002). However, the true CR/CRi rate was only 34%. 6,, - 9 In normal bone marrow, FLT3 expression is Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Alotaibi, A. S. et al. FLT3-ITD mutations are detected in approximately 25% of newly diagnosed adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients and confer an adverse prognosis. Although poor prognosis in AML is only associated with FLT3-ITD, all activating FLT3 mutations can contribute to leukemogenesis and are thus potential targets for therapeutic interventions. By submitting a comment you agree to abide by our Terms and Community Guidelines. 4). Lancet Oncol. Adult patients with FLT3- ITD mutated AML treated at our institution were identified. 100, 184198 (2008). FMS-like tyrosine kinase-3 internal tandem duplication (FLT3-ITD) is one of the most frequent mutations found in AML patients. In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles Among 362 patients, NGS was performed in 118 patients using a panel of 39 genes. Internal tandem duplication (ITD) of the fms-related tyrosine kinase-3 gene ( FLT3) confer a poor prognosis in adult AML. 2012;91(1):9-18. Mutant FLT3: a direct target of sorafenib in acute myelogenous leukemia. Phase I study of quizartinib administered daily to patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia irrespective of FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3internal tandem duplication status. While the adverse prognostic impact of FLT3-ITDmut in AML has been clearly proven, the prognostic significance of FLT3-TKDmut remains speculative. 368, 20592074 (2013). Taken together, utilizing baseline FLT3-ITDmut AR to guide the post-remission therapy remains controversial. 5).The study protocol was conducted following the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Ethics Committee for Clinical Research of the Hospital UniversitarioFundacin Jimnez Daz (PIC169-18_FJD). Blood 121, 27342738 (2013). Blood 130, 721 (2017). In patients with concurrent NPM1mut, the OS and relapse risk were comparable between FLT3 wild-type and FLT3-ITDmut AR <0.5, but worse when AR 0.5. Blood 124, 34413449 (2014). and P.M.; Formal analysis, J.M.A., Investigation,T.C., J.M.A. In a single-arm phase II trial of quizartinib (90 or 135mg), the CRc rates were between 46 and 56% in ~250 R/R FLT3-ITDmut patients treated across two cohorts. 5, 6 The FLT3 gene is a member of the class III receptor tyrosine kinase family, including c-kit, c-fms, and the platelet-derived growth factor receptors. FLT3-TKD activating mutations also constitutively activate FLT311; however, they have not been associated with a consistent prognostic impact12. Blood 136, 3233 (2020). Regarding the ITD insertion site, Kayseret al22,23 observed that adult AML patients with an ITD in the beta-1 sheet had significantly inferior OS and DFS compared to those with ITDs located in other regions. Informed consent was a requisite for patients alive at the time of data lock (January 2019). Google Scholar, MR ODonnell 2017 Acute myeloid leukemia, version 3.2017, NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology J. Natl. Validation of ITD mutations in FLT3 as a therapeutic target in human acute myeloid leukaemia. (D) OS according to the FLT3-ITD length and 2010 ELN genetic risk. The two leading types of FLT3 mutations found in AML include internal tandem duplications in the juxtamembrane domain (ITD, 17-34%) and mutations in the tyrosine kinase domain (TKD) activation loop (~7%) ( 1 ). We aimed to shed light on the prognostic importance of theFLT3-ITD length and site of insertion by validating previously suggested sites of insertion and thresholds of ITD length. Blood 136, 1617 (2020). Brinton, L. T. et al. In subsequent cycles: FLT3i is continued for the entire duration of the cycle and the venetoclax duration is reduced to 14 days or lower to mitigate cumulative prolonged cytopenias. The authors declare no competing interests. It is important to note that none of these patients received a FLT3 inhibitor (FLT3i) during induction, consolidation, or post-ASCT. FLT3 -ITD was a poor prognostic factor in both age groups, but the favorable prognostic impact of NPM1 was more evident in patients aged 65 years or more. Thank you for visiting nature.com. Cancer 125, 37553766 (2019). The current European Leukemia Net (ELN) guidelines categorize FLT3 -ITDmut AML as favorable (NPM1mut with FLT3 wild-type Or NPM1mut with FLT3-ITD AR<0.5), intermediate (NPM1mut with FLT3-ITD AR>0.5 Or NPM1WT with FLT3-ITD AR<0.5), or adverse (NPM1WT with FLT3-ITD AR>0.5)18. We also analyzed the mutational profile of 118 FLT3-ITD AML patients with an NGS panel of 39 genes and correlated mutational status with the length and IS of ITD. 1). These observations have made FLT3 an attractive drug target. The BSC group included 7 patients receiving transfusions and other supportive measures. J. Haematol. J. Hematol. FLT3-ITD mutation is one of the most commonly identified gene mutations in AML while being an infrequent mutation in MDS and acute lymphocytic leukemia. The median length of the ITD in four patients with SF3B1mutations was 15bp vs 48bp in patients without SF3B1 mutations (n=64) (P=0.012). "For patients with AML, the 5-year survival rate is only about 29%," said Dr. Erba. The addition of sorafenib significantly improved the event-free survival (EFS; 21 months vs 9 months; P=0.013) and RFS (56% vs 38%), but not OS28, although a recent update suggested an emerging trend toward improved OS29. Blood 132, 598607 (2018). Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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