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Amer Zeidan, MBBS, MHS, on the Evolution of AML Classification, Treatment

The HemOnc Pulse

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How to Diagnose Acute Myeloid Leukemia in a 45 Year Old Person

The main approach is to decide whether your patient is intensive chemo candidate or not, are they fit enough to get strong chemo. Your goal with acute myeloid leukemia and younger patient generally is cure. In most patients, it would need bone marrow transplantation as a consolidation strategy. For example, favorable risk we would give intensive chemo 7 plus 3. If they have Corbining factor leukemia, many, I would say the standard of care is to add gym to zoom up or zugamizing. This is an antibody drug conjugate against CD33 which is expressed in most AML cells.

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