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Caring for Older Adults with Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Best Practices for Aligning Patient Fitness and Preference with Available Therapies.

Stephanie Franco, Christopher Wanjiku, Daniel R Richardson
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Older adults with acute myeloid leukemia survive about 15 months despite best therapies

Caring for Older Adults with Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Best Practices for Aligning Patient Fitness and Preference with Available Therapies.

Stephanie Franco … Daniel R Richardson
Drugs & aging · 2026
Background

Major advances in drug development and supportive care have led to a paradigm shift in the management of many of the aspects of clinical care for older adults with acute myeloid leukemia.

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Results
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Half of these older patients die within about 15 months, even when treated
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Five-year survival for adults over the age of 75 years is profoundly low, below 10%.

For many patients, current therapies fail to dramatically extend life or improve the quality of life.

These stark realities must inform clinical decision making and fuel further research.

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This review critically examines current treatment options including recently approved targeted agents in the upfront and relapsed setting including FLT3 inhibitors, isocitrate dehydrogenase 1/2 inhibitors, and the newly approved menin inhibitors.

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Conclusion

We also introduce theory-driven preference assessments that are increasingly being used to capture patient treatment outcome priorities.

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