ArticleJournal of the advanced practitioner in oncology2023
Role of Luspatercept in the Management of Lower-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes.
Article in Journal of the advanced practitioner in oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.
- Contemporary Approach to the Diagnosis and Classification of Myelodysplastic Neoplasms/Syndromes-Recommendations From the International Consortium for Myelodysplastic Neoplasms/Syndromes (MDS [icMDS]).Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2024Guideline
- Luspatercept: From Bench to Bedside and Beyond in the Management of Ineffective Erythropoiesis.Journal of hematology · 2026Review
- UBE2O as a key regulator of drug-induced erythropoiesis in the context of myelodysplastic syndromes.Blood advances · 2026Article
- Vaccines: a promising therapy for myelodysplastic syndrome.Journal of hematology & oncology · 2024Review
- Context-dependent TGFβ family signalling in cell fate regulation.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Treatment options are limited for patients with anemia associated with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (LR-MDS). The recent approval of luspatercept for the treatment of anemia associated with very low-to intermediate-risk MDS with ring sideroblasts (RS) or with myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm with RS and thrombocytosis has provided adult patients and practitioners with a much-needed new therapeutic option. Luspatercept is a first-in-class erythroid maturation agent that exerts its effects on later stages of erythropoiesis. In the phase III MEDALIST trial of patients with LR-MDS with RS, luspatercept (starting dose 1 mg/kg) demonstrated substantial clinical benefit (38% of patients treated with luspatercept vs. 13% of those treated with placebo [
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