Clinical Aspects in the Treatment of Elderly Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the development of new therapies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has progressed slowly. For decades, the standard treatment for AML has been intensive induction chemotherapy, sometimes followed by a hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Unfortunately, older patients are less responsive to such aggressive chemotherapy and cannot tolerate it. Since the majority of AML patients are elderly, this group has been most affected by the lack of newer, less-toxic therapies. However, the landscape of AML treatments given to elderly patients has recently changed significantly with the approval of several new drugs.

The aim of this Special Issue is to update the current knowledge on the treatment of elderly patients with AML who are unfit for intensive chemotherapy. We encourage you to submit your scientific article in order to improve our shared knowledge of this topic and implement new approaches in clinical practice.

Dr. Matteo Molica
Guest Editor

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• acute myeloid leukemia
• unfit patients
• non-chemotherapy approaches
• treatment stratification by fitness
• target therapies