ReviewCureus2022
Aggressive Natural Killer Cell Leukemia: A Brief Overview of Its Genomic Landscape, Histological Features, and Current Management.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy and prognosis of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in aggressive NK-cell leukemia: a meta-analysis.Annals of hematology · 2025Pooled it
- Aggressive Natural Killer Cell Leukemia: A Rare and Rapidly Progressive Hematologic Malignancy-Case Report and Literature Review.Case reports in hematology · 2026Article
- Aggressive natural killer cell leukemia therapy in the L-asparaginase era: why are we failing?Blood research · 2025Article
- Case report: a critically ill patient with aggressive NK-cell leukemia receiving emergency chemotherapy in the ICU.Virology journal · 2025Article
- The Molecular Pathology of Blood Cancer: A Comprehensive Review of Chromosome and Genetic Abnormalities and Their Clinical Utility.British journal of biomedical science · 2025Review
- Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis as the initial manifestation of Epstein-Barr virus-related T/NK-cell lymphoproliferative disorders in a pediatric patient: a case report and literature review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- [Aggressive natural killer cell leukemia with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: a case report].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2024Article
- Epstein-Barr Virus-Associated Aggressive Natural Killer Cell Leukemia: Challenges and Emerging Therapies.Cureus · 2024Article
- Chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection as the basis of neoplasm development. Transformation of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia to NK-cell lymphoma/leukaemia was observed by flow cytometry - a diagnostic report.Central-European journal of immunology · 2023Article
- Intravascular NK/T-Cell Lymphoma: What We Know about This Diagnostically Challenging, Aggressive Disease.Cancers · 2022Review
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Abstract
Aggressive natural killer-cell leukemia (ANKL) is a rare hematological malignancy characterized by the abnormal proliferation of natural killer (NK) cells. There are currently no therapies approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of ANKL, but advancements in genomics are assisting in the unraveling of this rare malignancy. We selected 37 articles that contained information on genomics, immunohistochemistry, and/or current clinical trials relating to the treatment and survival of ANKL. Current therapeutic strategies have been subdivided into (1) concurrent chemoradiation, (2) sequential chemoradiation, and (3) sandwich chemoradiation. These methods have been developed to reduce toxicity while still producing a pathologic response. Concurrent chemoradiation with VIDL (etoposide, ifosfamide, dexamethasone, and L-asparaginase) produced an excellent clinical response, while sequential chemoradiation with SMILE (steroid dexamethasone, methotrexate, ifosfamide, L-asparaginase, and etoposide) showed an adequate response, but with severe hematologic toxicity. The efficacy of L-asparaginase in chemotherapeutic regimens and its association with NK-cell apoptosis have led to its inclusion in all standard regimens. Future studies are focusing on the addition of a programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitor and hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT).
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