Development of Philadelphia chromosome-negative acute myeloid leukemia with IDH2 and NPM1 mutations in a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia who showed a major molecular response to tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy

Autor: Hiroko Tanaka, Kinuko Mitani, Fusako Nagasawa, Satoru Miyano, Yuko Nakamura, Shiho Furuichi, Tomoyuki Handa, Fumi Nakamura, Yasuhito Nannya, Wataru Takahashi, Honoka Arai, Motoshi Ichikawa, Ko Sasaki, Seishi Ogawa, Yuka Nakamura
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: International Journal of Hematology. 113:936-940
ISSN: 1865-3774
0925-5710
DOI: 10.1007/s12185-020-03074-7
Popis: Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are standard therapies for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) that can eradicate Ph-positive leukemic cells. However, disease control is not achievable in a minority of cases, most commonly due to evolution of TKI-resistant clones. There have also been rare cases of emergence of Ph-negative clones with other cytogenetic abnormalities, and, less commonly, development of Ph-negative acute myeloid leukemia (AML), whose molecular pathogenesis is largely unknown. Here we report molecular features of a patient with Ph + CML who developed Ph-negative AML after showing a major molecular response to dasatinib. A 55-year-old man was diagnosed with CML. He achieved a complete cytogenetic response three months after dasatinib therapy but developed AML with normal karyotype 1 year later. After receiving induction and consolidation chemotherapy for AML, the patient achieved complete remission with no evidence of CML under maintenance with bosutinib. Targeted sequencing of serial bone marrow samples identified mutations in IDH2 and NPM1 in the Ph-negative AML cells, which had not been detected in CML cells. These results suggest that Ph-negative AML in this patient originated from a preleukemic population, which might have expanded during or after the successful elimination of CML clones with TKI therapy.
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