Structural racism and AML survival, promoter competition and hemoglobin switching, and CAR T-cell therapy and high-risk cytogenetics in ALL

In this week’s episode we’ll first cover a research article demonstrating the striking contribution of neighborhood disadvantage to racial and ethnic disparities in survival in patients with acute myeloid leukemia. The second research article provides a model for understanding how disruption of the adult-globin promoter may alleviate promoter competition, thereby reactivating fetal gamma-globin gene expression. We will close with a research article showing that CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy provides durable remissions in patients with relapsed or refractory ALL across cytogenetic categories, including those patients with high-risk cytogenetics.