!["Patients [with cancer] and physicians would rather have a fixed-duration treatment, if possible," said Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA, at SOHO 2026.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0vv8moc6/cancernetwork/1cfb57db416943d8f8690afb0bc0d13aa3d90683-400x400.jpg?w=350&fit=crop&auto=format)
"Patients [with cancer] and physicians would rather have a fixed-duration treatment, if possible," said Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA, at SOHO 2026.
News|Videos|December 15, 2017
Adding Nivolumab to Induction Chemotherapy Safe in Younger AML Patients
Author(s)Farhad Ravandi-Kashani, MD
This video highlights a phase II trial that tested the addition of nivolumab to combination induction chemotherapy of cytarabine and idarubicin for patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia.
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In this video, Farhad Ravandi-Kashani, MD, of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, discusses a phase II trial that tested the addition of nivolumab to combination induction chemotherapy of cytarabine and idarubicin for patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Ravandi-Kashani presented results of the study (
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