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EU commissioner Tonio Borg: 'we will continue to improve the life of people suffering from Thalassaemia'

 

Today, May 8, is International Thalassemia Day. Today, we seek to enhance the awareness and knowledge of thalassemia and other hemoglobin disorders.

HARMONY Alliance: Progress in Using Big Data Technology to Achieve Better Outcomes for Patients with Blood Cancers

HARMONY Alliance: Progress in Using Big Data Technology to Achieve Better Outcomes for Patients with Blood Cancers: HARMONY Alliance is an unparalleled medicine offensive to battle blood cancers by using Big Data analyses.

Chairs and Members

Chair (2017-present)Oliver A. Cornely—University Hospital Cologne, Cologne (Germany)

Co-chair (2023-present)Livio Pagano—Fondazione Policlinico A.

Novel basis for chemoresistance in AML: DNMT3A R882 mutations promote chemoresistance and residual disease through impaired DNA damage sensing

Although most acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients initially respond to chemotherapy, the majority subsequently relapses and succumbs to refractory disease. Residual leukemic cells that survived chemotherapy may persist over time and later cause the disease to come back.

Addition of obinutuzumab (GA101) or rituximab to chlorambucil improves outcomes for elderly patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and co-existing medical conditions (comorbidities)

CLL is the most common leukemia in the western world. Many CLL patients are elderly and have comorbidities rendering them ineligible for aggressive standard treatments.