MPN Cancer Connection

09/09/2026

September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month, and tomorrow is MPN Awareness Day.

To recognize both, MPN Cancer Connection is proud to introduce 👉A Guide to Polycythemia Vera (PV), a free educational resource for patients and caregivers.

Whether you are newly diagnosed or have lived with PV for years, this guide can help you better understand symptoms, blood counts, diagnosis, treatment options, and life with PV. It can also help you prepare for more informed conversations with your healthcare team.

📖 Read the guide online or download your free copy:
https://mpncancerconnection.org/2026/09/polycythemia-vera-guide/

Thank you to our generous supporters, PharmaEssentia, Incyte, and Takeda, for helping make this important patient resource possible.

Please share this guide with another patient, caregiver, family member, or support group. One share could help someone find information they need.

Explore our polycythemia vera guide to learn about PV symptoms, diagnosis, risk factors, treatment options, blood counts, monitoring, and living with PV.

09/08/2026

“Can we engineer disease trajectories in MPNs?”

That question from Dr. Alessandro Lucchesi stopped me.

For years, much of the MPN treatment conversation has focused on controlling blood counts, reducing spleen size, easing symptoms, and lowering immediate risks. Those goals remain essential. But the discussion is becoming more ambitious:

Can we intervene earlier, match the right treatment to the right patient, and actually change where the disease is headed?

This will be the central focus of RiseMPN 2026, taking place November 6–7 in Rome, Italy.

We now have more tools in the MPN arsenal. JAK inhibitors, interferons, hepcidin-axis treatments, epigenetic therapies, p53/MDM2 strategies, activin ligand traps, and other investigational approaches are expanding the possibilities.

The next challenge is determining:

• Which treatments or combinations can truly modify disease biology?
• Which patients are most likely to benefit?
• When is the best time to intervene?
• Can we delay or prevent progression rather than responding after it occurs?

Having more treatments does not automatically mean we are changing the natural history of an MPN. That still has to be proven through strong clinical research. But I am impressed that the conversation is moving beyond symptom control and asking a much bigger question: Can we deliberately change the trajectory of these diseases?

That is the direction patients have been waiting for.

Thank you to Dr. Alessandro Lucchesi for sharing this thoughtful perspective and helping move this important discussion forward. I will be watching RiseMPN 2026 closely and sharing meaningful developments with the MPN community.

Learn more: https://risempn.org

Can we engineer disease trajectories in MPNs? Rome, 6–7 November 2026.

09/02/2026

From our Partner Corner:

Unite to Nourish: Learning About MPN Nutrition

Tuesday, September 29, 2026
This webinar is designed for individuals living with MPNs and their caregivers who are interested in learning more about the role of nutrition in supporting overall health and well-being.
Topics will include:
• Why nutrition is important for people living with MPN
• Which foods and eating patterns may be helpful for people living with MPN
• How nutrition can help address common symptoms and treatment-related concerns
• Practical strategies for maintaining adequate nutrition and hydration
• Answers to participant questions during a live Q&A session with a registered dietitian
Weblink to Register:

Watch these videos on how to manage the most common cancer treatment side effects with a healthy eating regimen.

08/24/2026

EXPLORE MPN CLINICAL TRIALS

New treatments for MPNs are being studied every day.

The FREE MPN Clinical Trial Finder from PV Reporter helps you search for trials by your MPN:

🔴 Polycythemia Vera (PV)
🟠 Essential Thrombocythemia (ET)
🔵 Myelofibrosis (MF)

Search by MPN type, location, trial phase, recruitment status or treatment. Trial information comes directly from ClinicalTrials.gov.

Find a study that interests you and discuss it with your hematologist. Once you click on a trial and then "show details," you will see a "Print for Hematologist" button that provides all the key highlights of the trial.

Check out the MPN Clinical Trial Finder today - https://pvreporter.com/mpn-clinical-trial-finder/

08/15/2026

Hematological trajectories and pregnancy complications in essential thrombocythemia and polycythemia vera

Women with essential thrombocythemia (ET) and polycythemia vera (PV) are at increased risk of pregnancy complications. During pregnancy, hematologic parameters tend to approach normal values, and previous studies have reported that a greater decline in platelet counts in ET is associated with reduce...

08/10/2026

Silence Therapeutics Announces Positive Topline Results from Phase 2 SANRECO Trial of Divesiran in Polycythemia Vera, Supporting its Potential Best-in-Class Profile

Key Findings (very impressive):

Trial met its primary endpoint, with a significantly higher proportion of clinical responders on divesiran (88%) compared to placebo (19%); placebo-adjusted response rate = 69%

Both divesiran dose groups showed substantial primary endpoint efficacy; 93.8% response rate at Q6W and 81.3% response rate at Q12W

Divesiran was observed to be well tolerated with no new safety findings

Phase 3 PV trial evaluating divesiran Q12W vs. placebo anticipated to initiate in 1H'27

Trial met its primary endpoint, with a significantly higher proportion of clinical responders on divesiran (88%) compared to placebo (19%); placebo-adjusted response rate = 69% Both divesiran dose groups showed substantial primary endpoint efficacy; 93.8% response rate at Q6W and 81.3% response rate...

08/03/2026

Nonadherence, Uncontrolled Hematocrit Common With Phlebotomy for PV, Study Finds

https://ashpublications.org/ashclinicalnews/news/9289/Nonadherence-Uncontrolled-Hematocrit-Common-With?hl=en-US

07/27/2026

You Look Fine. But You Feel "Off."

Living with essential thrombocythemia (ET) can feel isolating. You may look "fine" while battling fatigue, disrupted sleep, or quiet worry. Raqueal, a busy mom of two, knows that struggle firsthand.

Her story is a reminder that ET is more than numbers on a lab report. Read how she moved from questions to confidence, and find resources to help you feel more prepared.

Being diagnosed with a rare, chronic blood cancer like essential thrombocythemia, or ET, can feel overwhelming and isolating.

07/21/2026

Prior Cancer History Predicts Second Cancers in Polycythemia Vera, Essential Thrombocythemia

Patients with a history of nonmelanoma skin cancer had a 548% greater likelihood to develop another skin cancer vs those with no cancer history.