AML

Jorge E. Cortes, MD, discusses the 5-year overall survival results of CPX-351 versus 7+3 in patients with newly diagnosed high-risk or secondary acute myeloid leukemia.

In the phase 1/2 AUGMENT-101 clinical trial, treatment with the novel menin-MLL small molecule inhibitor SNDX-5613 led to robust clinical responses in patients with mixed lineage leukemia rearranged and NPM1c-mutant relapsed or refractory acute leukemias.

The FDA has granted an orphan drug designation to CA-4948, a first-in-class, small-molecule inhibitor of IRAK4, for the treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome.

In preclinical models of acute myeloid leukemia with FLT3 internal tandem duplication mutation, AMG 176 in combination with gilteritinib demonstrated the ability to synergistically target the disease.

Danielle Hammond, MD, discusses prognostic factors indicating therapy success for patients with acute myeloid leukemia treated with a combination of venetoclax (Venclexta) and either decitabine or azacitadine.

The phase 3 ARMADA 2000 trial, which aims to determine the efficacy and safety of devimistat in combination with high-dose cytarabine and mitoxantrone compared to controls for older patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia, has crossed the enrollment of 150 participants.

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, Curtis Lachowiez, MD, discussed the findings from the study of venetoclax added to the FLAG-ID regimen for the treatment of patients with secondary or R/R AML.

The FDA has revised the approval of daunorubicin and cytarabine to add 2 new indications for the treatment of newly diagnosed therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia or for AML with myelodysplasia-related changes in pediatric patients aged 1 year and older.

Gilteritinib showed improvement in overall survival in patients with relapsed or refractory FLT3 mutation-positive acute myeloid leukemia compared with chemotherapy, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 COMMODORE confirmatory trial.

Curtis Lachowiez, MD, discusses the interim analysis of the phase 1b/2 study of venetoclax in combination with standard intensive acute myeloid leukemia induction plus consolidation therapy with the FLAG-IDA regimen as treatment of patients with newly diagnosed or relapsed/refractory AML

The first patient with acute myeloid leukemia in a phase 2 trial of the MultiTAA-specific T cell, MT-401 followed stem-cell transplant has been dosed with the agent, according to a press release by Marker Therapeutics, Inc.

Sergio Giralt, MD, discusses the current unmet medical needs for patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia.

The FDA granted Orphan Drug designation to first-in-class LSD1 inhibitor iadademstat, for the treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

Targeted radioimmunotherapy to the marrow with apamistamab conditioning therapy led to high rates of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant in patients with active, relapsed, or refractory acute myeloid leukemia, according to interim data from the phase 3 SIERRA trial.

Five-year follow-up data from the phase 3 CLTR0310-301 clinical trial shows continued OS benefit with the novel agent CPX-351 in acute myeloid leukemia subgroups.

A phase 1 study is the first to demonstrate that JSP191 is safe and effective in older patients with MRD-positive acute myeloid leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome who are undergoing nonmyeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation.

Danielle Hammond, MD, discusses the results from a retrospective review of patients with acute myeloid leukemia treated over the last 6 years with a combination of venetoclax and either decitabine or azacitadine.

Andrew Wei, MBBS, PhD, discusses the results from the phase 3 QUAZAR AML-001 Maintenance Trial of CC-486 for patients with acute myeloid leukemia in the first remission after intensive chemotherapy.

Tapan M. Kadia, MD, discusses the treatment options for patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia.

Ten-year overall survival is low among patients with acute myeloid leukemia , but an analysis demonstrated that survival is shorter for older patients treated with chemotherapy alone, according to published findings.

The FDA lifted the partial clinical hold that was placed on a phase 2 study of MT-401 as treatment of patients with post-transplant acute myeloid leukemia.

An Independent Data Monitoring Committee has recommended the pivotal phase 3 SIERRA study continue as planned to full enrollment of 150 patients based on the findings from a pre-planned ad hoc interim analysis of the study.

In a phase 1b clinical trial presented during the 2020 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting, investigators sought to determine the efficacy and safety of the novel TIM-3–targeting IgG4 antibody sabatolimab in combination with hypomethylating agents as treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia, as well as high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome.

Andrew M. Brunner, MD, shares his key take home message from a phase 1b clinical trial investigating sabatolimab as treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia, as well as high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome.

A review by an Independent Data Monitoring Committee determined that combination of gilteritinib plus azacitidine would not likely improve overall survival compared with azacitidine alone in patients newly diagnosed FLT3-positive acute myeloid leukemia who were ineligible for intensive induction chemotherapy, missing the primary end point of the phase 3 LACEWING clinical trial.