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March 7, 2026CancersOpen Access

Addition of Venetoclax to Azacitidine Did Not Improve Survival in Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Was Not Well Tolerated: Real World Experience

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DYDavid YanniUniversity of LancashireNKNupur KrishnanMcMaster UniversityRKRouslan KotchetkovRoyal Victoria Regional Health Centre

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Overview

Real-world experience reveals no survival benefit from adding Venetoclax to Azacitidine in AML, highlighting tolerability issues.

Key Points

  • To evaluate the impact of adding Venetoclax to Azacitidine on survival and tolerability in acute myeloid leukemia patients in a real-world setting.
  • Retrospective review of patients treated with Azacitidine alone or Azacitidine plus Venetoclax
  • Assessment of administration patterns, tolerability, efficacy, and safety
  • Exclusion of patients receiving less than one cycle or those proceeding to stem cell transplant
  • Median overall survival was 18 months for Azacitidine and 14 months for Azacitidine plus Venetoclax, p = 0.905
  • 28.3% of Azacitidine patients experienced severe neutropenia compared to 56.5% for the combined treatment
  • Thrombocytopenia occurred in 15.1% of Azacitidine versus 51.2% of Azacitidine plus Venetoclax patients
  • Clinical stability or remission was achieved in 69.8% of Azacitidine patients and 69.5% in those receiving the combination treatment

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Yanni et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69abc1765af8044f7a4ea172https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers18050841
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