Momelotinib Improves Symptoms of Myelofibrosis
The proportion of patients with a 50% or greater reduction in total symptom score was higher with momelotinib than with danazol.
The proportion of patients with a 50% or greater reduction in total symptom score was higher with momelotinib than with danazol.
Momelotinib proved superior to danazol in patients with symptomatic, anemic myelofibrosis in a phase 3 study.
A single-center study sought to determine the effects of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms.
The approval was based on data from the phase 3 PERSIST-2 trial.
At 12 weeks, most patients had a reduction in spleen volume.
Researchers found that a 9.4 mg/kg dose of imetelstat is more efficacious than a 4.7 mg/kg dose.
Fedratinib, a selective inhibitor of JAK2, was approved in 2019 by the US FDA for the treatment of certain groups of patients with myelofibrosis.
Imetelstat was active in patients with myelofibrosis, but had the potential to cause clinically significant myelosuppression.
Preceding myeloproliferative neoplasm is a predictor for poor outlook in patients who develop new primary cancers.
In patients with myelofibrosis treated with ruxolitinib, harboring three or more mutations was inversely associated with response.