Azacitidine and Venetoclax in Previously Untreated Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Courtney D DiNardo1, Brian A Jonas1, Vinod Pullarkat1

  • 1From the Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (C.D.D., M.K.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento (B.A.J.), the Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Gehr Family Center for Leukemia Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte (V. Pullarkat), and Genentech, South San Francisco (W.-J.H.) - all in California; the Section of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago (M.J.T.), and AbbVie, North Chicago (Y.Z., J.P.) - both in Illinois; the Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston (J.S.G., A.L.); the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, VIC (A.H.W.); the Department of Internal Medicine III, Ulm University Hospital, Ulm, Germany (H.D.); Hôpital St. Louis, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and Université de Paris, Paris (P.F.); the Third Medical Department for Hematology and Oncology, Hanusch Hospital, Vienna (E.K.); the Department of Hematology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels (V.H.); the Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (B.L.); the Department of Hematology, Hospital Clinic, August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona (J.E.); the Institute of Hematology and Hospital of Blood Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, China (J.W.); the Department of Hematology, University Hospital Dubrava, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia (V. Pejsa); the Department of Clinic Subjects, University Hospital Ostrava-Poruba, Ostrava, Czech Republic (R.H.); Helsinki University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Helsinki, Helsinki (K.P.); the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Hematology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary (A.I.); Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem (D.L.); the Clinic of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, and San Martino Hospital IRCCS - both in Genoa, Italy (R.M.L.); the Department of Hematology and Cell Therapy, Aichi Cancer Center, Nagoya, Japan (K.Y.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine (S.-S.Y.), and the Department of Hematology-Oncology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine (J.-H.J.) - both in Seoul, South Korea; the Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan (S.-P.Y.); the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun, Turkey (M.T.); and Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (K.W.P.).

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