Adult patients under 60 years of age with newly-diagnosed FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leukemia who received the investigational compound PKC412 (midostaurin), plus standard induction and consolidation chemotherapy, experienced a 23 percent improvement in overall survival (HR=0.77, p=0.0074), compared to those treated with standard induction and consolidation chemotherapy alone.
In the absence of the federal funding, cancer research will be leaning on private funders. But few private funders have the freedom to ask fundamental questions—questions whose answers may not have an immediate clinical impact but can dramatically advance scientific knowledge.
