Emerging therapeutic drugs for AML. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Multiple new drugs are being developed to treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML), including novel formulations of traditional chemotherapy-antibody drug conjugates and agents that target specific mutant enzymes. Next-generation sequencing has allowed us to discover the genetic mutations that lead to the development and clinical progression of AML. Studies of clonal hierarchy suggest which mutations occur early and dominate. This has led to targeted therapy against mutant driver proteins as well as the development of drugs such as CPX-351 and SGN-CD33A whose mechanisms of action and efficacy may not be dependent on mutational complexity. In this brief review, we discuss drugs that may emerge as important for the treatment of AML in the next 10 years.

publication date

  • December 10, 2015

Research

keywords

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
  • Molecular Targeted Therapy

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4915807

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84955474556

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1182/blood-2015-07-604538

PubMed ID

  • 26660428

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 127

issue

  • 1