Relapse

BOSTON — Relapse rates for patients with MS who took dimethyl fumarate were consistently low over the course of 5 years, Krupa Shah Pandey, MD, said in this Healio video.

Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia receiving maintenance therapy who lived in extreme poverty had nearly double the risk for relapse compared with children who did not live in extreme poverty, according to data published in Blood.

Persistent FLT3-internal tandem duplication or NPM1 variants in the blood of patients with acute myeloid leukemia in first remission before transplant appeared associated with higher risk for relapse and death, according to a study in JAMA.

In a cohort of United States military veterans, relapse of schizophrenia symptoms was associated with higher rates of adverse socioeconomic outcomes, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

CHICAGO — Centralized treatment and adherence to modern guidelines may account for “relatively low” rates of late relapse and improved long-term outcomes after treatment for testicular cancer, according to a speaker at ASCO.

In children with epilepsy who discontinue anti-seizure medications, the risk for seizure relapse was significantly associated with younger age at diagnosis, according to a study published in Epilepsy & Behavior.

SAN DIEGO — Among ulcerative colitis patients in endoscopic remission, histologic inflammation increased the risk for loss of remission, according to a presentation at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

As oncologists currently lack a cure for multiple myeloma, most patients will relapse at some point. The ability to predict when this will occur, however, may lead to more personalized therapy.

A higher dose of primaquine was significantly more effective at preventing relapse of Plasmodium vivax malaria than a smaller dose, according to study findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Among patients with first-episode psychosis, the effectiveness of antipsychotics for relapse prevention decreased significantly after the second occurrence, according to a register-based cohort study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.