Drs Gail Roboz and Alexander Perl discuss adverse-risk acute myeloid leukemia.

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Resources

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The Presence of a FLT3 Internal Tandem Duplication in Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Adds Important Prognostic Information to Cytogenetic Risk Group and Response to the First Cycle of Chemotherapy: Analysis of 854 Patients From the United Kingdom Medical Research Council AML 10 and 12 trials https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006497120609351?via%3Dihub

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Pitfalls in NPM1-Mutated AML: Notes From the Field https://www.nature.com/articles/s41375-021-01222-4

Prognostic Impact of DNMT3A Mutation in Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Mutated NPM1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2473952921005425

Midostaurin Plus Chemotherapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia with a FLT3 Mutation https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5754190/pdf/nihms901401.pdf

Quizartinib With Standard of Care Chemotherapy and as Continuation Therapy in Patients With Newly Diagnosed FLT3-ITD (+) Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) (QuANTUM-First) https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02668653

A Review of FLT3 Inhibitors in Acute Myeloid Leukemia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0268960X21001119?via%3Dihub

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