Perspectives on interferon-alpha in the treatment of polycythemia vera and related myeloproliferative neoplasms: minimal residual disease and cure?

Autor: Hans Carl Hasselbalch, Morten Orebo Holmström
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Oncology
Ruxolitinib
Neoplasm
Residual
MPN
Review
Inflammation/diagnosis
Myeloproliferative neoplasms
Myeloproliferative Disorders/diagnosis
0302 clinical medicine
Polycythemia vera
hemic and lymphatic diseases
Immunology and Allergy
Immunologic Surveillance
Polycythemia Vera
MPNs
Vaccination strategies
Pegylated interferon-alpha2
Treatment Outcome
MRD
Disease Progression
Cure
medicine.drug
Polycythemia Vera/diagnosis
medicine.medical_specialty
Combination therapy
Interferon-alpha/administration & dosage
Immunology
Alpha interferon
03 medical and health sciences
DNA-hypomethylator
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
Myelofibrosis
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Inflammation
Myeloproliferative Disorders
Thrombocytosis
business.industry
Protein Kinase Inhibitors/administration & dosage
Minimal residual disease
Statins
Interferon-alpha
medicine.disease
030104 developmental biology
Mutation
business
030215 immunology
Chronic myelogenous leukemia
Zdroj: Seminars in Immunopathology
Hasselbalch, H C & Holmström, M O 2019, ' Perspectives on interferon-alpha in the treatment of polycythemia vera and related myeloproliferative neoplasms : minimal residual disease and cure? ', Seminars in Immunopathology, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 5-19 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00281-018-0700-2
ISSN: 1863-2300
DOI: 10.1007/s00281-018-0700-2
Popis: The first clinical trials of the safety and efficacy of interferon-alpha2 (IFN-alpha2) were performed about 30 years ago. Since then, several single-arm studies have convincingly demonstrated that IFN-alpha2 is a highly potent anti-cancer agent in several cancer types but unfortunately not being explored sufficiently due to a high toxicity profile when using non-pegylated IFN-alpha2 or high dosages or due to competitive drugs, that for clinicians at first glance might look more attractive. Within the hematological malignancies, IFN-alpha2 has only recently been revived in patients with the Philadelphia-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms-essential thrombocytosis, polycythemia vera, and myelofibrosis (MPNs)-and in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) in combination with tyrosine kinase inhibitors. In this review, we tell the IFN story in MPNs from the very beginning in the 1980s up to 2018 and describe the perspectives for IFN-alpha2 treatment of MPNs in the future. The mechanisms of actions are discussed and the impact of chronic inflammation as the driving force for clonal expansion and disease progression in MPNs is discussed in the context of combination therapies with potent anti-inflammatory agents, such as the JAK1-2 inhibitors (licensed only ruxolitinib) and statins as well. Interferon-alpha2 being the cornerstone treatment in MPNs and having the potential of inducing minimal residual disease (MRD) with normalization of the bone marrow and low-JAK2V617F allele burden, we believe that combination therapy with ruxolitinib may be even more efficacious and hopefully revert disease progression in many more patients to enter the path towards MRD. In patients with advanced and transforming disease towards leukemic transformation or having transformed to acute myeloid leukemia, "triple therapy" is proposed as a novel treatment modality to be tested in clinical trials combining IFN-alpha2, DNA-hypomethylator, and ruxolitinib. The rationale for this "triple therapy" is given, including the fact that even in AML, IFN-alpha2 as monotherapy may revert disease progression. We envisage a new and bright future with many more patients with MPNs obtaining MRD on the above therapies. From this stage-and even before-vaccination strategies may open a new horizon with cure being the goal for some patients.
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