Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39475400›Full record

ArticleCancer2025

Outcomes of pregnancy in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in the era of tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

Takeshi Kondo, Eri Matsuki, Tomoiku Takaku, Naoki Watanabe, Chikashi Yoshida, Masaya Okada, Kazunori Murai, Takashi Kodama, Naoto Takahashi, Shinya Kimura and 2 more

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Review
  6. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Takeshi KondoBlood Disorders Center, Aiiku Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7455-5824
Eri MatsukiDivision of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Tomoiku TakakuDepartment of Hematology, Saitama Medical University, Iruma district, Saitama, Japan.
Naoki WatanabeDepartment of Hematology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Chikashi YoshidaDepartment of Hematology, NHO Mito Medical Center, Ibaraki, Japan.
Masaya OkadaFirst Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University Medical Center, Moriguchi, Osaka, Japan.
Kazunori MuraiDepartment of Hematology, Iwate Prefectural Central Hospital, Morioka, Japan.
Takashi KodamaDepartment of Reproductive Medicine, Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, Japan.
Naoto TakahashiDepartment of Hematology, Nephrology and Rheumatology, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
Shinya KimuraDivision of Hematology, Respiratory Medicine and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan.
Itaru MatsumuraDepartment of Hematology and Rheumatology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
Preg‐CML/Japan Study Investigators

Funding

Pfizer Health Research Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundYoung female patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) often face challenges becoming pregnant due to the teratogenicity of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs).

methodsThe authors conducted a nationwide survey of female patients with CML who experienced pregnancy between 2002 and 2020.

resultsInformation for 70 pregnancies in 49 patients was obtained. There were three types of pregnancies: CML onset during pregnancy (n = 9), unplanned pregnancy mostly during treatment with a TKI (n = 25), and planned pregnancy during treatment-free remission (TFR) or treatment with interferon-alpha (IFN-α) (n = 36). The median duration from CML diagnosis to pregnancy in patients with planned pregnancy was significantly longer than that in patients with unplanned pregnancy (10.6 years vs. 4.1 years, p < .001). In 48 pregnancies that resulted in childbirth, TFR and treatment with IFN-α were chosen in 26 and 17 pregnancies, respectively. Sustained major or deeper molecular response was observed in 18 of 26 pregnancies with TFR. The patients who fulfilled the requirements for TKI therapy discontinuation by European LeukemiaNet recommendations achieved a TFR rate of 77% in pregnancy. Treatment with IFN-α might be effective for patients who are in complete cytogenetic response or deeper response (response rate, 76%).

conclusionPregnancy by TFR or treatment with IFN-α could be a safe and feasible way for patients with CML. However, a substantial duration of treatment with a TKI before conception may be needed for planned pregnancy. Planning and evaluation for pregnancy should be considered at the time of CML onset for female patients with childbearing potential.

Indexed as

Interferon-alphaLeukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL PositivePregnancy Complications, NeoplasticPregnancy OutcomeProtein Kinase InhibitorsAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansPregnancyTyrosine Kinase InhibitorsYoung AdultInterferon-alphaProtein Kinase InhibitorsTyrosine Kinase Inhibitorschronic myeloid leukemiainterferon‐alphapregnancytreatment discontinuationtreatment‐free remissiontyrosine kinase inhibitor

Identifiers

PMID39475400
PMCPMC11694238

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.