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Dr Jacob D Soumerai and Prof Andrew D Zelenetz discuss their phase 2 trial of the BOVen regimen and MRD-driven treatment discontinuation in previously untreated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma.Read the full article:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-3026(21)00307-0/fulltext 

Dr Raul Cordoba discusses the joint Series between The Lancet Healthy Longevity and The Lancet Haematology on haematological malignancies in older people.Read the full article:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-3026(21)00241-6/fulltext

Professor Obiageli Nnodu and Dr Dennis Chao join acting Deputy Editor Emma Cookson to talk about their new study describing modelling of child mortality as a result of sickle cell disease in Nigeria. Read the full article:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-3026(21)00191-5/fulltext

Senior Assistant Editor Ben Burwood speaks with Dr Zuguo Mei (Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA)  and Dr Gary M Brittenham (Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA) about their work defining physiologically based serum ferritin thresholds for iron deficiency.Read the full article:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-3026(21)00168-X/fulltext

To mark International Nurses Day, Eugenia Trigoso Arjona, nurse coordinator at Hospital La Fe (Valencia, Spain) and chair of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Nurses Global Education Committee, joins acting Editor-in-Chief Yaiza del Pozo Martin to discuss how nurses can reshape the future of haematological care. 

Para el Día International de la Enfermera, Eugenia Trigoso Arjona, enfermera coordinadora en el Hospital La Fe (Valencia, España) y presidenta del comité de educación de la European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Nurses hablo con la Editora Yaiza del Pozo Martin sobre como las enfermeras pueden remodelar el futuro de la hematología. 

A/Prof Nada Hamad (St Vincent’s hospital, Sydney, Australia) joins Editor-in-Chief Dr Lan-Lan Smith to discuss inclusion and diversity in haematology-oncology and transplantation.  

Editor-in-Chief, Dr Lan-Lan Smith, speaks with Dr Judith Boer (Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands) about outcome of ABL-class acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children in the pre-tyrosine kinase inhibitor era.Read the full article:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-3026(20)30353-7/fulltext

Andrea Biondi joins The Lancet Haematology to discuss his work on imatinib as a treatment for paediatric Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Prashant Hiwarkar joins The Lancet Haematology to discuss his new paper, an investigation into whether serial faecal PCR monitoring can predict the risk of adenoviraemia and survival outcomes after HSCT.