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Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH: Some Clonal Mutations May Predict Therapy-Related Myeloid Neoplasms

2022 ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH, of the Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship, University of Alabama at Birmingham, discusses study findings that showed key somatic mutations in the peripheral blood stem cell product increases the risk of developing therapy-related myeloid neoplasms (Abstract 119).



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Therapy related leukemia is a lethal complication of autologous transplantation for Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Now, there are some very well known clinical factors that increase the risk. These include older age at transplantation, pre-transplant exposures to alkylating agents and radiation, and then exposure to total body radiation, and a lower dose of CD34 positive cells that are infused. More recently, there has been increasing attention to what's called clonal hematopoiesis. These are somatic mutations that are present in the peripheral blood, which are in healthy people known to increase the risk of subsequent leukemia. And these have also been studied recently in cancer patients. But there are some gaps in knowledge and these are, what are the factors associated with clonal hematopoiesis? Whether it is just older age, or any treatments increase the risk? And then are there specific mutations that increase the risk of therapy related leukemia? So we addressed this gap in about 1,328 patients with lymphoma, where we had cryopreserved peripheral blood stem cells. We looked at specific mutations and found that they were present in 33% of our survivors. And one third had multiple mutations, two thirds had a single mutation. And we found that there was a clear association between multiple mutations and therapy related leukemia, not with single mutations. So that was a novel finding for us. Going forward beyond that, we also found that Hodgkin lymphoma patients were at a higher risk of therapy related leukemia, as were males. And what we did was then we dug in deeper and found in males PPM1D increased the risk of therapy related leukemia. While in females, there was no association within these clonal hematopoiesis and therapy related leukemia. When we look at Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients, it's primarily TP53 mutations which increase the risk. Coming back to specific mutations, we find that TP53, any TP53 mutations, confer the highest risk. This is followed by any PPM1D mutations, while presence of DNMT3A mutations alone, without any PPM1D or TP53 mutations, don't confer any risk at all. Presence of single or multiple mutations are associated with non relapse mortality, not with relapse related mortality. So in conclusion, what we find is that older age and exposure to therapy related factors such as alkylating agents increase the risk of clonal hematopoiesis. And then amongst the patients who have clonal hematopoiesis, it's the male sex, Hodgkin lymphoma and presence of multiple mutations that increase the risk. And also the fact that PPM1D and TP53 are the major driving forces here. Where do we want to go next? We need to see how these key mutations interact with hematopoietic stressors and use this information to further our understanding of the pathogenesis of therapy related leukemia, and also to develop predictors that help us understand who's at risk for therapy related leukemia.

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