New hope for tough CML: milder chemo before transplant shows promise

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * (1) Confirmed diagnosis of blast-phase chronic myeloid leukemia, with diagnostic criteria referring to the 2020 Chinese Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. Diagnostic criteria for chronic myeloid leukemia: Typical clinical manifestations combined with the presence of Philadelphia chromosome and/or BCR-ABL fusion gene positivity confirm the diagnosis. Diagnostic criteria for blast phase: 1. Peripheral blood or bone marrow blasts ≥20% 2. Aggregates of blasts on bone marrow biopsy 3. Extramedullary blast cell infiltration (2) Age ≥18 years (3) Ability to provide self-signed informed consent (4) Must meet adequate organ function requirements: Renal and hepatic function as follows: AST, ALT and ALP \<2× upper limit of normal (ULN) Total bilirubin \<1.5× ULN Creatinine clearance \>50 mL/min Pancreatic function: Serum amylase ≤1.5× ULN Serum lipase ≤1.5× ULN Normal cardiac function: Ejection fraction (EF) \>60% Pulmonary artery systolic pressure ≤50 mmHg (5) HIV negative, HBV negative, HCV negative (6) Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG-PS) score of 0-2 (7) Signed informed consent must be obtained before study procedures begin. For subjects aged 18 years or older, informed consent shall be signed by the patient themselves or direct family members. Considering the patient's medical condition, if the patient's own signature is medically inadvisable, the informed consent shall be signed by a legal guardian or the patient's direct family member. Exclusion Criteria: * 1\. (1) Patients with previous autologous or allogeneic stem cell transplantation; (2) Patients concurrently diagnosed with other malignant tumors; patients assessed by investigators as having concomitant diseases that severely endanger their life safety or affect their ability to complete this study; (3) Patients with psychiatric disorders or other medical conditions that cannot comply with the requirements of study treatment and monitoring; (4) Patients unable or unwilling to sign the consent form; (5) Pregnant or lactating women; (6) Patients assessed by investigators as ineligible due to other special circumstances.