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Would you consider weekly low-dose decitabine and weekly venetoclax (metronomic dosing) in frail patients with high-risk MDS?

Goldfinger et al., PMID 39316768 Rockwell et al., PMID 40671491
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Hematology · University of Chicago
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I find the metronomic dosing regimen of decitabine + venetoclax in high-risk myeloid malignancies (particularly TP53-mutated malignancies) very intriguing but have used the regimen sparingly thus far in the absence of randomized data supporting its use.

When thinking about higher-risk MDS, we have da...

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Medical Oncology · West Virginia University Cancer Institute
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I would consider it (the data are, indeed, compelling), but I have not personally used it as frontline therapy. I do have colleagues who have used this regimen as frontline therapy for AML and MDS with variable responses. Admittedly, for the majority of my older MDS patients, I still find single-age...

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