Intensive chemotherapy remains the standard for newly diagnosed (ND) acute myeloid leukemia (AML); however, relapse risk remains high. Additionally, most patients with relapsed/refractory (RR) AML have poor outcomes. We report the long-term experience of 138 patients, 77 ND and 61 RR, treated with FLAG-IDA in combination with venetoclax.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOntogeny of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) provides prognostic information, however closer interrogation with respect to AML characteristics, genomics, and various treatments are warranted. We defined untreated clinical secondary (CS) AML as AML with a diagnosis of antecedent myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) or MDS/myeloproliferative neoplasm (MDS-MPN) without exposure to hypomethylating agents or chemotherapy; genomic secondary (GS) AML included patients with myelodysplasia related cytogenetics (MRC) or myelodysplasia related mutations (MRM) without a known antecedent myeloid neoplasm or prior chemo-radiotherapy for non-myeloid neoplasms. Among newly diagnosed AML patients classified as untreated CS-AML (n = 133) or GS-AML (n = 389), median relapse-free survival (RFS) (11.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) remains the best consolidative modality in most patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Along with factors directly pertaining to SCT, pretransplantation disease control, performance status, and prior treatment-related complications are important factors that affect posttransplantation survival outcomes.
Methods: The authors compared the survival outcomes of patients ≥60 years of age treated on the phase 2 clinical trial of venetoclax (Ven) added to cladribine (CLAD) and low dose cytarabine (LDAC) alternating with azacitidine (CLAD/LDAC/Ven arm) (NCT03586609) who underwent allogeneic SCT in first remission to a retrospective cohort of patients ≥60 years of age who underwent SCT after intensive chemotherapy.