SUMMARY

The focus on CML this year was on how to improve patient’s eligibility and success of treatment free remission (TFR). The longest TFR follow-up comes from the STIM trial, Imatinib +/- Interferon (IFN), in which has been shown that at 7-year follow-up only 38% of patients maintain TFR.1 Previously, additional prognostic features such as IFN pre-treatment and increased NK cell count at baseline have been suggested to be associated with increased success of TFR however these are not always validated in larger cohorts. Several investigators are therefore looking at how to better define TFR eligible patients and at how to increase the TFR success rate.

(BELG J HEMATOL 2023;14(5):207–10)