When do you combine hypomethylating agents with venetoclax or gemtuzumab ozogamicin in elderly patients with AML who are ineligible for intensive chemotherapy?
Even though Venetoclax is not FDA-approved yet, assuming you can get it off label?
1. Gemtuzumab: What dose/schedule and which HMA?
2. Venetoclax: What dose 400mg, 600mg, or 800mg and do you have to ramp up the dose as in CLL?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
In September, 2017, the FDA granted approval for gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO) in combination with daunorubicin and cytarabine (DA) and as a monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with newly-diagnosed CD33-positive acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Approval of GO monotherapy was based on a randomi...