Updated results from a phase II study of elderly patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia showed that to date, in 50 patients treated with Pracinostat in combination with azacitidine (Vidaza), 27 patients achieved complete response, plus complete response with incomplete blood count recovery plus morphologic leukemia-free state, including 16 patients who achieved a CR.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
