In addition to chemotherapy, which remains the basic treatment, the treatment panel for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) has expanded considerably in recent years. Clinicians now have a large choice of therapies: targeted therapies (anti-IDH1/2, anti-FLT3, and anti-BCL2 therapies, among others), drugs targeting epigenetic mechanisms, kinase inhibitors (FLT3, MAPK, and JAK2, etc.), immunotherapies (monoclonal antibodies linked or not to a toxin, dual/bispecific), and cellular immunotherapies. Moreover, despite its toxicities, allogeneic transplantation often remains an effective final therapeutic alternative. However, most patients are refractory or relapsed (R/R) after several lines of therapy. Thus, there is a clinical need in AML R/R patients, and CAR-T cells may be an option and can find a place in the treatment to reduce tumour burden and clinical evolution of the disease (Fig. 18.1, modified from Roussel et al. (2020)).
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