Courtney D. DiNardo, MD, MSCE, discusses ongoing investigations of triplet regimens with an azacitidine/venetoclax backbone for the treatment of patients acute myeloid leukemia and highlights the unmet needs that remain in older and high-risk subgroups within this patient population.
Dr Bhatnagar discusses the prior and ongoing studies evaluating the addition of uproleselan to standard-of-care regimens for patients with AML, why uproleselan could affect the treatment paradigm across AML subtypes, and the rationale for pursuing minimal residual disease negativity as a clinical end point in AML.