Chr del(1p)

Nevertheless, when co-segregation was eliminated, the detrimental effect of +1q or del(1p) was no longer observed. In conclusion, this study confirms the prognostic significance of high-risk cytogenetic abnormalities in MM and highlights the importance of considering co-occurrence for accurate prognosis assessment.

P2, N=52, Active, not recruiting, Academic and Community Cancer Research United | Recruiting --> Active, not recruiting

We show that TRIM33 knockdown sensitizes MM cells to the PARP inhibitor Olaparib, and this is synergistic with the standard of care therapy bortezomib, even in co-culture with bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs). These findings suggest that TRIM33 loss contributes to the pathogenesis of high-risk MM and that this may be therapeutically exploited through the use of PARP inhibitors.

Chromosome 1 structural abnormalities were the most prevalent, found in 65% of cases. The frequent presence of subclones and composite karyotypes underscored the genomic heterogeneity and instability in this cohort.

ConclusionsLeukoPrint is an automated, convenient and cost-effective approach to depict CNA profile in genomic DNA or cfDNA. This method is superior to conventional approaches when used for CNA testing, and the practice of this method could improve prognostic stratification of MM patients.

In addition to well-characterized MM drivers (KRAS, NRAS, etc.), 16 new candidate genes were found significantly mutated, including IKFZ3 (Aiolos), a transcription factor and direct target of degradation with lenalidomide therapy, harboring frameshift and stop-gain mutations in the protein dimerization domain which could affect complete differentiation of plasma cells...Conclusion These results highlight the power of genomic profiling in MM for early detection, discovery of novel drivers, monitoring of clonal selection and transformation to malignant disease. We show SMM is not a simple genomically-mature disorder, but rather a dynamic state with competing subclones, which could be leveraged for therapeutic interventions.

Eligible patients receive induction with 4 cycles of RCyBorD (lenalidomide, cyclophosphamide, bortezomib, dexamethasone), followed by high-dose melphalan and stem cell rescue. Patients with high-risk disease receive Isatuximab in addition to RCyBorD during induction...This work is also supported by Core Clinical trials unit infrastructure from Cancer Research UK ( C7852/A25447). The funder of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation or writing of the abstract

Our study demonstrated that the whole genome analysis of imbalances provides new insights to refine the risk stratification in T-ALL. Notably, genomic complexity (≥ 15 genomic imbalances) and chromothripis demonstrated an association with an inferior outcome in terms of EFS and CIR in pediatric and adult T-ALL.

Disease relapse typically occurs regardless of treatment with proteasome inhibitors (such as bortezomib and carfilzomib), immunomodulatory drugs (such as lenalidomide and pomalidomide), anti-CD38 monoclonal antibodies (such as daratumumab and isatuximab) or myeloablative melphalan and autologous stem cell transplantation, and also occurs following treatment with immunotherapeutics such as bispecific antibodies and/or CAR-T cells (targeting BCMA, FcRH5 or GPRC5D). We propose that cure of MM requires eradication of MM progenitor cells alongside plasma cells. We are currently conducting scRNA-seq and CITE-seq studies of primary MM samples to further characterize MM progenitor cells for gene and protein expression in order to define their optimal therapeutic targets.

P2, N=52, Recruiting, Academic and Community Cancer Research United | Trial primary completion date: Dec 2023 --> Sep 2024

In conclusion, our study confirmed the prognostic significance of high-risk cytogenetic abnormalities in a large cohort of MM patients. We also demonstrated the importance of considering the co-occurrence of high-risk alterations to accurately assess prognosis. Thus, while del(17p) retains its adverse prognosis even as a solitary abnormality, the negative prognosis of 1q gains was mitigated if this abnormality occured as the sole aberration.