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ReviewBlood advances2025

Advancing drug development in myelodysplastic syndromes.

Alain Mina, Kathy L McGraw, Lea Cunningham, Nina Kim, Emily Y Jen, Katherine R Calvo, Lori A Ehrlich, Peter D Aplan, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, James M Foran and 12 more

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Review in Blood advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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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

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Molecular and therapeutic frontiers in anemia therapy.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026
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  10. Clinical Applications of Ligand Traps Targeting Activin Type II Receptors.Anti-inflammatory & anti-allergy agents in medicinal chemistry · 2026
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  12. FDA Approval Summary: Ivosidenib for Treatment of Adult Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Myelodysplastic Syndrome with an IDH1 Mutation.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025
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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

22 authors.

Alain MinaImmune Deficiency Cellular Therapy Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Kathy L McGrawImmune Deficiency Cellular Therapy Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Lea CunninghamImmune Deficiency Cellular Therapy Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Nina KimCenter for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD.ORCID 0000-0002-1809-0417
Emily Y JenCenter for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD.ORCID 0000-0003-1962-5708
Katherine R CalvoMyeloid Malignancies Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Lori A EhrlichCenter for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD.ORCID 0000-0001-5981-1332
Peter D AplanMyeloid Malignancies Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.ORCID 0000-0001-5686-9969
Guillermo Garcia-ManeroDepartment of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
James M ForanDivision of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
Jacqueline S GarciaDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.ORCID 0000-0003-2118-6302
Amer M ZeidanSection of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine and Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Amy E DeZernDivision of Hematologic Malignancies, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.
Rami KomrokjiDepartment of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL.ORCID 0000-0002-1876-5269
Mikkael A SekeresDivision of Hematology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL.ORCID 0000-0003-2009-6524
Bart ScottFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.ORCID 0000-0001-9620-7839
Rena BucksteinOdette Cancer Center, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sara Tinsley-VanceDepartment of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL.
Amit VermaDepartment of Oncology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY.ORCID 0000-0001-7592-7693
Tanya WroblewskiCenter for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD.
Steven PavleticImmune Deficiency Cellular Therapy Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Kelly NorsworthyCenter for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

abstractMyelodysplastic syndromes/neoplasms (MDSs) are heterogeneous stem cell malignancies characterized by poor prognosis and no curative therapies outside of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Despite some recent approvals by the US Food and Drug Administration, (eg, luspatercept, ivosidenib, decitabine/cedazuridine, and imetelstat), there has been little progress in the development of truly transformative therapies for the treatment of patients with MDS. Challenges to advancing drug development in MDS are multifold but may be grouped into specific categories, including criteria for risk stratification and eligibility, response definitions, time-to-event end points, transfusion end points, functional assessments, and biomarker development. Strategies to address these challenges and optimize future clinical trial design for patients with MDS are presented here.

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Drug DevelopmentMyelodysplastic SyndromesClinical Trials as TopicHumans

Identifiers

PMID39786387
PMCPMC11914162

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