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ATLANTA – The past year brought a flurry of new drug approvals for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), including CPX-351, midostaurin, gemtuzumab ozogamicin, and enasidenib.
During a special interest session at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology, Food and Drug Administration representatives discussed the available data and approval process for these drugs, and clinicians discussed their use in the real-world setting.
In this video interview, – a liposome-encapsulated combination of daunorubicin and cytarabine approved in August for patients with newly diagnosed therapy-related AML or AML with myelodysplasia-related changes, and midostaurin (Rydapt), which was approved in April for the treatment of newly diagnosed AML patients who are FLT3 mutation-positive. She also discussed future directions for these agents.
“So what clinicians are faced with is, all of a sudden, a number of new agents, and no particularly vetted or data-based algorithm by which to assign patients from one to the other,” said Dr. Michaelis, of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, adding that none of the drugs have been compared against one another.
In her own practice, when it comes to CPX-351, she said she first discusses the pros and cons with patients.
“This drug is used for older individuals ... with very adverse risk disease, and so the first question is do you fit the trial entry criteria, do you want to go through induction, do you understand what that’s going to mean, and am I going to take you to transplant after we go through this.”
As for midostaurin, she said she tries to use it on anyone who fits the trial criteria and is FLT-3 positive.
“The trick with that is that we don’t know the FLT-3 status at the time we have to start induction, so it’s hard to determine the exact right doses of your induction regimen knowing that you’re not going to get the test back until day 6, 7, 8, and you’re supposed to start delivering the drug on day 8, so we still have a ways as a care community to catch up with being able to give these drugs in a manner that was the same as what was delivered in the trials that led to approval.”
She also discussed the potential for combining treatments.
“I think there’s really room for studies on combinations of inhibitors plus the CPX, the safety of using a variety of induction regimens alongside midostaurin, and safety of combining things, like with midostaurin for example, with some of our antifungals ... and to make sure that that’s safe. So yeah, we’ve got a lot more to do,” she said.
Dr. Michaelis serves on an advisory board for Novartis.
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ATLANTA – The past year brought a flurry of new drug approvals for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), including CPX-351, midostaurin, gemtuzumab ozogamicin, and enasidenib.
During a special interest session at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology, Food and Drug Administration representatives discussed the available data and approval process for these drugs, and clinicians discussed their use in the real-world setting.
In this video interview, – a liposome-encapsulated combination of daunorubicin and cytarabine approved in August for patients with newly diagnosed therapy-related AML or AML with myelodysplasia-related changes, and midostaurin (Rydapt), which was approved in April for the treatment of newly diagnosed AML patients who are FLT3 mutation-positive. She also discussed future directions for these agents.
“So what clinicians are faced with is, all of a sudden, a number of new agents, and no particularly vetted or data-based algorithm by which to assign patients from one to the other,” said Dr. Michaelis, of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, adding that none of the drugs have been compared against one another.
In her own practice, when it comes to CPX-351, she said she first discusses the pros and cons with patients.
“This drug is used for older individuals ... with very adverse risk disease, and so the first question is do you fit the trial entry criteria, do you want to go through induction, do you understand what that’s going to mean, and am I going to take you to transplant after we go through this.”
As for midostaurin, she said she tries to use it on anyone who fits the trial criteria and is FLT-3 positive.
“The trick with that is that we don’t know the FLT-3 status at the time we have to start induction, so it’s hard to determine the exact right doses of your induction regimen knowing that you’re not going to get the test back until day 6, 7, 8, and you’re supposed to start delivering the drug on day 8, so we still have a ways as a care community to catch up with being able to give these drugs in a manner that was the same as what was delivered in the trials that led to approval.”
She also discussed the potential for combining treatments.
“I think there’s really room for studies on combinations of inhibitors plus the CPX, the safety of using a variety of induction regimens alongside midostaurin, and safety of combining things, like with midostaurin for example, with some of our antifungals ... and to make sure that that’s safe. So yeah, we’ve got a lot more to do,” she said.
Dr. Michaelis serves on an advisory board for Novartis.
The video associated with this article is no longer available on this site. Please view all of our videos on the MDedge YouTube channel
ATLANTA – The past year brought a flurry of new drug approvals for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), including CPX-351, midostaurin, gemtuzumab ozogamicin, and enasidenib.
During a special interest session at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology, Food and Drug Administration representatives discussed the available data and approval process for these drugs, and clinicians discussed their use in the real-world setting.
In this video interview, – a liposome-encapsulated combination of daunorubicin and cytarabine approved in August for patients with newly diagnosed therapy-related AML or AML with myelodysplasia-related changes, and midostaurin (Rydapt), which was approved in April for the treatment of newly diagnosed AML patients who are FLT3 mutation-positive. She also discussed future directions for these agents.
“So what clinicians are faced with is, all of a sudden, a number of new agents, and no particularly vetted or data-based algorithm by which to assign patients from one to the other,” said Dr. Michaelis, of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, adding that none of the drugs have been compared against one another.
In her own practice, when it comes to CPX-351, she said she first discusses the pros and cons with patients.
“This drug is used for older individuals ... with very adverse risk disease, and so the first question is do you fit the trial entry criteria, do you want to go through induction, do you understand what that’s going to mean, and am I going to take you to transplant after we go through this.”
As for midostaurin, she said she tries to use it on anyone who fits the trial criteria and is FLT-3 positive.
“The trick with that is that we don’t know the FLT-3 status at the time we have to start induction, so it’s hard to determine the exact right doses of your induction regimen knowing that you’re not going to get the test back until day 6, 7, 8, and you’re supposed to start delivering the drug on day 8, so we still have a ways as a care community to catch up with being able to give these drugs in a manner that was the same as what was delivered in the trials that led to approval.”
She also discussed the potential for combining treatments.
“I think there’s really room for studies on combinations of inhibitors plus the CPX, the safety of using a variety of induction regimens alongside midostaurin, and safety of combining things, like with midostaurin for example, with some of our antifungals ... and to make sure that that’s safe. So yeah, we’ve got a lot more to do,” she said.
Dr. Michaelis serves on an advisory board for Novartis.
The video associated with this article is no longer available on this site. Please view all of our videos on the MDedge YouTube channel
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