|Videos|May 5, 2014

The Impact of FLT3 Inhibitors for the Treatment of AML

Meir Wetzler, MD, from Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses the potential impact of FLT3 inhibitors for the treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

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Meir Wetzler, MD, chief, Leukemia Section, Department of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses the potential impact of FLT3 inhibitors for the treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

In CML, initially only imatinib was available in the frontline, but now nilotinib and dasatinib are approved.
FLT3 inhibitors did not show significant efficacy in the relapsed/refractory setting of AML, so they were evaluated in the frontline.

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The Impact of FLT3 Inhibitors for the Treatment of AML

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