Leukemia treatment break: study tests pausing chemo for AML patients

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Adults 18 years of age or older at the time of obtaining informed consent. * Diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) (non-M3) as defined by 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) * Eastern Cooperative Group (ECOG) performance status score ≤ 2 * Currently on frontline therapy with HMA (azacitidine or decitabine)/VEN and achieved Complete Remission (CR)/Complete Remission with incomplete marrow recovery (CRi) with MRD negativity defined as \< 0.1% by Multiparameter Flow Cytometry (MFC) * Within 12 months of starting HMA (azacitidine or decitabine)/VEN * Ineligible for or declined allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) * Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document * Must agree to adhere to the study visit schedule and other protocol requirements * Patients must be able to provide adequate Bone Marrow (BM) aspirate and biopsy specimens for histopathological and Measurable Residual Disease analysis during the screening procedure Exclusion Criteria: * Use of cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents, or experimental agents (agents that are not commercially available) for the treatment of AML within 28 days, or 5 half-lives, at the start of the study. Only patients who are receiving frontline HMA (azacitidine or decitabine)/VEN are potentially eligible, but if they had received a course of hydroxyurea prior to achieving CR/CRi, this is allowed. * Any serious medical condition or uncontrolled current illness including, but not limited to ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements or will place the subject at unacceptable risk if he/she participates in the study. Controlled infections or other medical conditions on long-term therapy is allowed. * Patients who harbored TP53 mutation at diagnosis * AML with extramedullary involvement including central nervous system (CNS) involvement, myeloid sarcoma, and leukemia cutis requiring directed therapy at the time of enrollment. * Patient is pregnant.