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ArticleBlood advances2025

Validation of the revised 2022 European LeukemiaNet risk stratification in adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

Leo Ruhnke, Marius Bill, Sven Zukunft, Jan-Niklas Eckardt, Silvia Schäfer, Sebastian Stasik, Maher Hanoun, Thomas Schroeder, Lars Fransecky, Björn Steffen and 38 more

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Leo RuhnkeDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Marius BillDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1175-2406
Sven ZukunftDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1811-4562
Jan-Niklas EckardtDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Silvia SchäferMildred Scheel Early Career Center, Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0009-0001-3857-4355
Sebastian StasikDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Maher HanounDepartment of Hematology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1754-8940
Thomas SchroederDepartment of Hematology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Lars FranseckyDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3658-0284
Björn SteffenDepartment of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
Stefan W KrauseDepartment of Internal Medicine V, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5259-4651
Sebastian SchollDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Hematology and Medical Oncology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany.
Andreas HochhausDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Hematology and Medical Oncology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0626-0834
Tim SauerDepartment of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5412-324X
Sabrina KrausDepartment of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Kerstin Schäfer-EckartDepartment of Internal Medicine V, Nuremberg Hospital North, Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany.
Martin KaufmannDepartment of Hematology, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, Germany.
Edgar JostDepartment of Hematology, Oncology, Hemostaseology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Hospital Aachen and CIO ABCD Aachen, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
Tim BrümmendorfDepartment of Hematology, Oncology, Hemostaseology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Hospital Aachen and CIO ABCD Aachen, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9677-3723
Christoph SchliemannDepartment of Medicine A, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.
Jan-Henrik MikeschDepartment of Medicine A, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.
Utz KrugDepartment of Medicine 3, Klinikum Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany.
Mathias HänelDepartment of Internal Medicine III, Klinikum Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany.
Anke MorgnerDepartment of Internal Medicine III, Klinikum Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany.
Markus SchaichDepartment of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Rems-Murr-Hospital, Winnenden, Germany.
Andreas NeubauerDepartment of Internal Medicine, Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, University Hospital Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Roland ReppDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Städtisches Krankenhaus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
Dirk NiemannDepartment of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Gemeinschaftsklinikum Mittelrhein, Koblenz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2356-0214
Ruth Seggewiss-BernhardtDepartment of Internal Medicine V, Sozialstiftung Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.
Achim MeinhardtDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Rotenburg, Rotenburg, Germany.
Johannes KullmerDepartment of Internal Medicine II, DIAKO Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
Ulrich KaiserDepartment of Hematology, Oncology and Immunology, St. Bernward Hospital, Hildesheim, Germany.
Wolfgang BlauDepartment of Internal Medicine III, Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Klinikum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Alexander KianiDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Klinikum Bayreuth GmbH, Bayreuth, Germany and Comprehensive Cancer Center-Europäische Metropolregion Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2494-4087
Götz Ulrich GrigoleitDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Helios Klinikum Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany.
Aristoteles GiagounidisDepartment of Medical Oncology, Hematology and Palliative Care, Marien Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Alexander A WurmDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0065-9481
Heidi AltmannDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Jan Moritz MiddekeDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Johannes ScheteligDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Carsten Müller-TidowDepartment of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7166-5232
Friedrich StölzelDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0653-5332
Claudia D BaldusDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
Uwe PlatzbeckerDepartment of Internal Medicine I, Hematology and Cellular Therapy, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1863-3239
Hubert ServeDepartment of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8472-5516
Martin BornhäuserDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5916-3029
Christian ThiedeDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1241-2048
Christoph RölligDepartment of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Dresden, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3791-0548

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

abstractIn 2022, the European LeukemiaNet (ELN) risk stratification for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has been updated. We aimed to validate the prognostic value of the 2022 ELN classification (ELN22) by evaluating 1570 patients with newly diagnosed AML (median age, 56 years) treated with cytarabine-based intensive chemotherapy regimens. Compared with 2017 ELN classification (ELN17), which allocated 595 (38%), 413 (26%), and 562 patients (36%) to the favorable-, intermediate-, and adverse-risk categories, ELN22 classified 575 (37%), 410 (26%), and 585 patients (37%) as favorable, intermediate, and adverse risk, respectively. Risk group allocation was revised in 340 patients (22%). Most patients were reclassified into the ELN22 intermediate- or ELN22 adverse-risk group. The allocation of patients according to the ELN22 risk categories resulted in a significantly distinct event-free survival (EFS), relapse-free survival, and overall survival (OS). Compared with ELN17, reallocation according to the ELN22 recommendations resulted in a significantly improved prognostic discrimination for OS (3-year area under the curve, 0.71 vs 0.67). In patients with ELN22 favorable-risk AML, co-occurring myelodysplasia-related (MR) gene mutations did not significantly affect outcomes. Within the ELN22 adverse-risk group, we observed marked survival differences across mutational groups (5-year OS rate of 21% and 3% in patients with MR gene mutations and TP53 mutations, respectively). In patients harboring MR gene mutations, EZH2-, STAG2-, and ZRSR2-mutated patients showed an intermediate-like OS. In patients with secondary AML and those who underwent allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, EFS and OS significantly differed between ELN22 risk groups, whereas the prognostic abilities of ELN17 and ELN22 classifications were similar. In conclusion, ELN22 improves prognostic discrimination in a large cohort of intensively treated patients with AML. Given the heterogeneous outcome in patients with MR gene alterations, ranging between those of intermediate and adverse risk patients, we suggest re-evaluation of risk allocation in these patients.

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