New drug cocktail shows promise for untreated leukemia patients

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

Inclusion Criteria: * Diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML, excluding acute promyelocytic leukemia) confirmed by morphology, immunophenotyping and molecular genetics, in accordance with the WHO 2022 diagnostic criteria for AML; * Age 18-70 years, with no gender restriction; * No prior AML-related treatment has been received; exceptions are made for the use of hydroxyurea or similar agents during the diagnostic screening phase to control peripheral blood leukemic blasts; * Patients must be assessed as tolerable to intensive chemotherapy regimens; evaluation of tolerance to intensive chemotherapy shall be performed in accordance with the Ferrara 2013 criteria (Appendix A); * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score ≤ 2; * Serum creatinine ≤ 2.0 × upper limit of normal (ULN), or creatinine clearance \> 40 mL/min calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault formula for glomerular filtration rate (GFR); * Total bilirubin ≤ 2 × ULN, and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 3 × ULN; * Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥ 45%, or LVEF measured by echocardiography (ECHO) within the normal range; * Expected survival \> 3 months. Exclusion Criteria: * Subjects with a history of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), including myelofibrosis, essential thrombocythemia, polycythemia vera, chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) with or without BCR-ABL1 translocation, and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with BCR-ABL1 translocation; * Patients with a prior history of venetoclax or azacitidine (Aza) treatment for other diseases; * Known hypersensitivity to any component of the investigational medicinal products; * History of other concurrent malignancies within 2 years prior to enrollment, except: Adequately treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix or breast; Basal cell carcinoma or localized squamous cell carcinoma of the skin; Previously controlled malignancies treated with radical surgical resection (or other curative modalities), etc. * Presence of uncontrolled severe infection or active bleeding; * Pregnant or lactating women; * Subjects with active, treatment-uncontrolled viral infection caused by HIV, hepatitis B virus, or hepatitis C virus; * Subjects with evidence of central nervous system leukemia before treatment initiation; * Women of childbearing potential who do not agree to use at least one reliable contraceptive method from Day 1 of the study until 90 days after the last dose of study medication; sexually active male subjects who do not agree to use contraceptive measures from Day 1 of the study until 90 days after the last dose of study medication; male subjects who do not agree to refrain from sperm donation from the start of study drug administration until at least 90 days after the last dose; * Subjects with epilepsy requiring pharmacotherapy, dementia, or other abnormal psychiatric conditions that impair the ability to understand or comply with the study protocol; * Presence of psychiatric disorders or cognitive impairment that prevents cooperation with treatment and follow-up; conditions limiting oral drug intake or gastrointestinal absorption.