Increasing access to transplantation through telemedicine and patient navigation.

Background: Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is a promising treatment for hematological diseases, yet access barriers like cost and limited transplant centers persist. Telemedicine-based patient navigation (PN) has emerged as a solution. This study presents a cost-free PN telemedicine clinic (TC) in collaboration with the National Marrow Donor Program.

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation activity in Mexico during the COVID19 pandemic: on the way to recovery.

Objective: To analyze the number of HSCTs performed in 2019 vs. 2020 and report the status of transplant centers (TCs) during and a year after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: We performed a comprehensive cross-sectional nationwide study including active TCs interrogating HSCT activity from 2019 through September 2021.

Treatment of Ph-Negative Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Adolescents and Young Adults with an Affordable Outpatient Pediatric Regimen.

Background: B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is frequent in Hispanic adolescents and young adults. Outcomes of implementation of pediatric-inspired regimens in low-and middle-income countries are not well known.

Methods: In this study we treated 94 adolescents and young adults with a local BFM regimen designed to be affordable with the use of native L-asparaginase and mitoxantrone administered in an outpatient fashion, and the of BCR/ABL and measurable residual disease (MRD) determined by high sensitivity flow cytometry for risk stratification.