Guillermo Garcia-Manero, James McCloskey, Elizabeth A Griffiths, Karen W L Yee, Amer M Zeidan, Aref Al-Kali, H Joachim Deeg, Prapti A Patel, Mitchell Sabloff, Mary-Margaret Keating, Nancy Zhu, Nashat Y Gabrail, Salman Fazal, Joseph Maly, Olatoyosi Odenike, Hagop Kantarjian, Amy E DeZern, Casey L O'Connell, Gail J Roboz, Lambert Busque, Rena Buckstein, Harshad Amin, Jasleen Randhawa, Brian Leber, Aditi Shastri, Kim-Hien Dao, Aram Oganesian, Yong Hao, Harold N Keer, Mohammad Azab, Michael R Savona
BACKGROUND: The DNA methyltransferase inhibitors azacitidine and decitabine for individuals with myelodysplastic syndromes or chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia are available in parenteral form. Oral therapy with similar exposure for these diseases would offer potential treatment benefits. We aimed to compare the safety and pharmacokinetics of oral decitabine plus the cytidine deaminase inhibitor cedazuridine versus intravenous decitabine. METHODS: We did a registrational, multicentre, open-label, crossover, phase 3 trial of individuals with myelodysplastic syndromes or chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia and individuals with acute myeloid leukaemia, enrolled as separate cohorts; results for only participants with myelodysplastic syndromes or chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia are reported here...
January 2024: Lancet Haematology