Affiliation:
1. University of Kansas Medical Center, Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, Kansas City, KS
Abstract
Abstract
Treatment options for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have expanded over the last 5 years. New regimens are increasing the options for patients who previously may not have been offered any antineoplastic therapy. The use of the hypomethylating agent (HMA) decitabine or azacitidine combined with the BCL2 inhibitor venetoclax (HMA-VEN) has improved overall survival in an older and unfit population compared to HMA therapy alone. Delivering these regimens outside academic centers allows more patients with AML to be treated, though support and collaboration with allogeneic stem cell transplant (SCT) centers should still be considered to determine eligibility and promptly initiate a donor search for potential transplant candidates. Expanding the use of HMA-VEN to younger and fit patients who are also candidates for intensive chemotherapy (IC) is being studied prospectively and is not recommended at this time outside of a clinical trial. Retrospective studies suggest populations that may benefit from HMA-VEN over IC, but this is not yet confirmed prospectively. Utilizing HMA-VEN prior to allogeneic SCT is also under investigation, and some retrospective data show feasibility and the ability to achieve measurable residual disease negativity pretransplant. Upcoming prospective randomized clinical trials aim to answer the comparability or superiority of HMA-VEN vs IC in fit populations and its potential use as a standard pretransplant induction regimen.
Publisher
American Society of Hematology
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