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During the 62nd American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition, the AML Hub spoke to Andrew Wei, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, AU, and Natasha S. Anstee, The Alfred Hospital & Monash University, Melbourne, AU. We asked, Does sorafenib plus intensive chemotherapy improve outcome in FLT3-internal tandem duplication (FLT3-ITD) AML?
ALLG AMLM16: Does sorafenib plus intensive chemotherapy improve outcome in FLT3-ITD AML?
Wei starts by introducing the clinical study data from AMLM16, a randomized, placebo-controlled trial evaluating sorafenib versus placebo in combination with intensive chemotherapy for previously untreated adult patients with FLT3-ITD AML. In this study, sorafenib did not improve event-free survival when combined with intensive chemotherapy; Wei discusses the possible causes of this result and the subgroups that did better in the sorafenib arm. Anstee then reports the results from the correlative studies evaluating the impact of sorafenib on phospho-FLT3 inhibition and the presence of FLT3-ITD measurable residual disease after chemotherapy.
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