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Are you now using luspatercept as your first choice for anemia management in patients with low-risk MDS otherwise appropriate for EPO initiation, regardless of presence of SF3B1 or ringed sideroblasts?

Per the new data from the COMMANDS trial, Platzbecker et al., PMID 37311468
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Since the publication of the COMMANDS trial results, has your approach to treating patients with transfusion dependent low-risk MDS with anemia changed?

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Hematology · UMass Chan Medical School
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Only use luspatercept if the patient is transfusion-dependent. FDA approves luspatercept as first-line treatment of anemia in adults with lower-risk MDS (aabb.org).

In patients with MDS who are candidates for epo and transfusion independent then epo is still my first choice.

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