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At the 61st American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting & Exposition, James Foran, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, US, presented the updated results of the ECOG-ACRIN E2906 trial that investigated patient outcomes after decitabine (DAC) maintenance therapy vs observation (OBS) in intensively-treated older patients (≥60 years) with acute myeloid leukemia (AML)1. Feasibility of DAC maintenance was previously confirmed in a large phase II study.2
Primary results for E2906 were first reported at ASH 2015:3
The target accrual of Step 3 was N= 172, but the accrual was suspended after recruitment of 120 patients in February 2015 by the data monitoring committee due to superior OS observed with standard chemotherapy vs CLO
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