Acute Myeloid Leukemia: How Do We Measure Success?

Curr Hematol Malig Rep

UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Aramont Foundation for Clinical/Translational Research in Human Malignancies, Room 42-121 Center for Health Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, 90095, CA, USA.

Published: December 2016

The development and approval of novel, effective therapies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has lagged behind other malignancies. Judging success of therapy with meaningful endpoints is critical to development of new treatments. Overall survival (OS) has typically been the parameter necessary for regulatory approval of experimental therapy in AML. Herein, we discuss different strategies to define outcomes for patients with AML and their relative challenges.

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