Acute Myeloid Leukemia

HOW DOES VENCLEXTA WORK AGAINST AML?

It is not known if VENCLEXTA is safe and effective in children.

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What is VENCLEXTA?

VENCLEXTA is a prescription medicine used in combination with azacitidine, or decitabine, or low-dose cytarabine to treat adults with newly-diagnosed AML who:

  • are 75 years of age or older, or
  • have other medical conditions that prevent the use of standard chemotherapy

It is not known if VENCLEXTA is safe and effective in children.

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How does VENCLEXTA work against AML?

VENCLEXTA is a pill that works differently than other treatments. It targets a specific protein in your body called BCL-2. This helps restore what is called apoptosis, a process of natural cell death that is disrupted when you have cancer, restoring the body’s natural ability to tell cancer cells to die.

Once this process is restored, your body can begin to kill cancer cells. With fewer cancer cells, there is now room for healthy cells to grow in the bone marrow.

What is VENCLEXTA

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Learn more about treating AML with VENCLEXTA