Durable Remissions with Ivosidenib in IDH1-Mutated Relapsed or Refractory AML

Courtney D DiNardo1, Eytan M Stein1, Stéphane de Botton1

  • 1From the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (C.D.D., H.M.K.); Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (E.M.S., M.S.T.) and Weill Cornell Medical College (G.J.R.), New York; Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif (S.B., C.W.), and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bordeaux, Bordeaux (A.P.) - both in France; Northwestern University, Chicago (J.K.A.); Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus (A.S.M.); Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami (R.S.); University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas (R.H.C.); University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco (G.N.M.), and City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte (A.S.S.) - both in California; University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora (D.A.P.); Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville (W.D.); Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center (A.T.F.) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (R.M.S.), Boston, and Agios Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge (S.C., H.W., V.Z., K.E.Y., S.M.K., H.Y., D.D., B.F., M.G., H.L., S.A., B.W., E.C.A.) - all in Massachusetts; University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham (H.P.E.); Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (G.T.P.); Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis (G.L.U.); Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL (J.M.F.); Oregon Health and Science University Knight Cancer Institute, Portland (E.T.); Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston (R.K.S.); Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta (M.L.A.); Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ (J.L.S.); and Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland (M.A.S.).

Summary

Ivosidenib is an effective targeted therapy for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with IDH1 mutations. This treatment showed durable remissions and molecular responses in relapsed or refractory AML patients.

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