Active clinical trials for "Leukemia"

RATIONALE: Studying quality of life in cancer survivors may help determine the long-term effects of hematologic cancer and may help improve the quality of life for future cancer survivors. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying the quality of life of adult cancer survivors who have undergone a previous bone marrow or peripheral stem cell transplant for a childhood hematologic cancer.

RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures may improve the ability to detect residual disease. PURPOSE: Clinical trial to detect the presence of residual disease in children who are receiving therapy for acute myeloid leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome.

The aim of the retrospective study was to further characterize the prevalence of comorbid conditions as well as the use of concomitant medications in newly diagnosed CML patients in a real-world setting. Hematologists from ten Polish hematological tertiary care centers were asked to analyze medical records for all consecutive CML patients diagnosed with chronic phase CML between January 1st 2005 and December 31st 2014.

Improved understanding of the long-time healthcare utilisation of childhood cancer survivors is relevant as it can be seen as a proxy for the population's morbidity. The investigators will conduct a historic population-based matched cohort study using Danish nationwide registry data. Eligible children are children 1.0-17.9 years diagnosed with Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in Denmark from 1994 till 2016. The primary outcome is yearly contact rates to primary healthcare.

The aim of this observational study is to describe treatment patterns and effectiveness outcomes in a sample of oncology patients treated for AML with Mylotarg through up to two additional relapsed/refractory (R/R)-based lines of therapy (through third-line therapy). The study will use United States oncology electronic medical record (EMR) data. All study data are secondary data and will have been collected retrospectively from existing clinical data originally collected as part of routine care.

Conventional cytogenetic studies have been the gold standard for more than five decades for detecting genetic alterations that are greater than 10 Mb (mega base pairs) in size. Conventional cytogenetic studies have paved the way in identifying specific chromosomal aberrations associated with clinically and morphologically definitive subsets of hematological neoplasms. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) has become a reliable and rapid complementary test in targeting critical genetic events associated with diagnostics and prognosis in hematological neoplasms. In the current health care environment, which increasingly focuses on value and efficiency, it is critical for pathologists and clinicians to effectively navigate this environment and judiciously incorporate these high-complexity and expensive techniques into routine patient care. While conventional karyotyping provides a comprehensive view of the genome, FISH can detect cryptic or submicroscopic genetic abnormalities and identify recurrent genetic abnormalities in nondividing cells. As a consequence, it is commonly extrapolated that FISH will improve the sensitivity of detecting all genetic abnormalities compared with conventional karyotyping analysis. This assumption has then been translated in clinical practice to having clinicians and pathologists routinely ordering both conventional karyotyping and FISH studies in patients with hematological neoplasms. Depending on how comprehensive the FISH panel is, the cost for this testing may be quite expensive, and its additive value remains questionable. It is common practice for laboratories to use FISH panels in conjunction with karyotyping both in diagnostic specimens and during follow-up to monitor response to therapy. Multiplex FISH (M-FISH) represents one of the most significant developments in molecular cytogenetics of the past decade. In tumor and leukemia cytogenetics, two groups have been targeted by M-FISH to identify cryptic chromosome rearrangements not detectable by conventional cytogenetic studies: those with an apparently normal karyotype (suspected of harboring small rearrangements not detectable by conventional cytogenetics) and those with a complex aberrant karyotype (which are difficult to karyotype accurately due to the sheer number of aberrations).

The objective of the study is to describe the current epidemiology, treatment patterns, outcomes and healthcare resource use of adult patients diagnosed with relapsed/refractory (R/R) B-cell ALL and de novo AML in 4 Latin American countries.

This was a non-interventional observational study within the routine chronic myeloid leukemia treatment practice; no further tests were required apart from the assessments routinely performed for Chronic myeloid leukemia patients treated with nilotinib.

This study assessed the efficacy and safety of generic imatinib in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in Jordan. It was a multicenter, non-interventional, open-label, prospective study combined with retrospective data collection from files of patients with a diagnosis of Ph+ CML, treated with Cemivil (imatinib), where no visits or intervention(s) additional to the daily practice were performed

Prospective, multicenter, observational, national study (EPA-SP) that aims to describe the survival and the quality of life, the clinical management strategies and the prognostic factors for survival related to the patient, in a prospective cohort of patients over 60 with AML diagnosis in Spain and treated outside of clinical trials; that is, under conditions of standard clinical practice. The study will last 24 months in total from the inclusion of the first patient until the end of the last patient's follow-up