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Acute myeloid leukaemia

How is it diagnosed today? Your family doctor usually arranges an urgent blood test, and may send you to a hospital specialist or straight to hospital. NHS

What do you need help with?

Where treatment stands

Four steps, from proven to unproven.

  1. Approved in Austria

    Usual treatment: Intensive chemo, sometimes a stem cell transplant. NHS

    15 medicines are approved for this disease in Austria:

    Show all 15

    An EU approval is valid in Austria. We did not check the national approvals in Austria, so some medicines under “Approved elsewhere” may be approved here too. We did not check whether they are sold or paid for there. Checked in the regulators' own texts on 11 Nov 2026.

    Approved elsewhere (17)
    • Cyclophosphamide (Frindovyx) – approved for it in the US
    • Cytarabine (Cytarabine, Aracytine, Cytarabine Sandoz) – approved for it in the US and France
    • Daunorubicin (Daunorubicin Hydrochloride, Daunoblastin, Cerubidine) – approved for it in the US, Switzerland, and France
    • Doxorubicin (Doxorubicin Hydrochloride) – approved for it in the US
    • Enasidenib (Idhifa) – approved for it in the US
    • Etoposide (Celltop, Etopophos) – approved for it in France
    • Filgrastim (Neupogen) – approved for it in the US
    • Idarubicin (Zavedos, Idamycin PFS, Idarubicine Accord) – approved for it in the US and France
    • Mercaptopurine (Purinethol) – approved for it in France
    • Mitoxantrone (mitoXANTRONE) – approved for it in the US
    • Olutasidenib (Rezlidhia) – approved for it in the US
    • Revumenib (Revuforj) – approved for it in the US
    • Sargramostim (Leukine) – approved for it in the US
    • Thioguanine (Tabloid, Lanvis) – approved for it in the US and France
    • Treosulfan (Grafapex) – approved for it in the US
    • Tretinoin (Tretinoin, Vesanoid) – approved for it in the US, Switzerland, and France
    • Ziftomenib (Komzifti) – approved for it in the US

  2. Being tested in people

    13 open trials in Austria, 628 worldwide. See the trials

    • 4 chemotherapy blocks: Course 1 AIE (cytarabine/idarubicin/etoposide), Course 2 AI (cytarabine/idarubicin), Course 3 HAD (high-dose cytarabine (1g)/daunorubicin), Course 4 HA (high-dose cytarabine). (Phase 3)
    • AG-120 (Phase 3)
    • AG-221 (Phase 3)
    • all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) (Phase 3)

  3. Only in the lab or in animals

    Of the 20 newest articles, 2 were in animals and 0 in the lab. See them

  4. No proof it works

    Animal worm medicines (ivermectin, fenbendazole) for cancer: not approved, and not enough research in people to know if they help. American Cancer Society: What to Know About Ivermectin (21 May 2026) · American Cancer Society: What to Know About Fenbendazole (21 Oct 2025)

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Join a trial

Studies that are taking new patients in Austria. The trial team decides who can join. Change the country at the top.

AgeChildAdultBoth
Type of acute myeloid leukaemiaAnyAcute Myeloid LeukemiaAMLMyelodysplastic SyndromesAcute Lymphoblastic LeukemiaAcute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML)LeukemiaAcute LeukemiaHematologic MalignancyRecurrent Acute Myeloid LeukemiaAcute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in RemissionRefractory Acute Myeloid LeukemiaB-cell Lymphoma
Where are you now?Just diagnosedIt came back or grew
Tumour test resultIDHFLT3It is on the tissue (pathology) report. Not sure? Ask your doctor.
MoreFirst tests in people (phase 1)CAR-THealthy volunteers welcome
Showing trials abroad tooThe registry rarely says whether a trial takes patients from other countries. Ask the trial team.

Phase 1: first tests in people · Phase 2: does it help? · Phase 3: compared with the usual treatment

13 open trials in Austria, and 1 opening soon or by invitation

Available abroad (742 trials)

Nearest region first. Travel and treatment abroad are often not paid for; ask your health insurer first.

Showing 40 of 742. Use the filters to narrow the list.

How to get into an early trial

  1. A lab does not treat patients, so you cannot phone the lab to get a new treatment.
  2. Ask your doctor to look at phase 1 trials with you. These are the first tests in people.
  3. If one fits, your doctor sends a referral to the trial centre.
  4. The trial team checks whether you can join and decides.
Show phase 1 trials

Trial data: ClinicalTrials.gov, courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine; it does not endorse this site. EU trials: EU Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS), European Medicines Agency. We show the registry records; the trial team has the last word on who can join.

Latest research

The five newest articles. The label comes from the PubMed index: whether it was tested in people, in animals or only in the lab.

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Get screened

For family members and people at higher risk: free checks can find some cancers early, before there are symptoms.

There is no routine screening for this cancer. If you have symptoms or a family history, talk to your doctor.

If several people in your family had cancer, ask your GP whether genetic counselling makes sense for you.

Offer tissue or data

You can help research move faster.

Give tissue or blood to research

Before an operation or a blood test, ask if left-over tissue or blood can go to a biobank.

  • Does this hospital have a biobank?
  • What will the sample be used for, and for how long?
  • Can I change my mind later?

Share your health data

Ask your doctor whether there is a patient registry for your illness. You choose what you share.

Take part as a healthy volunteer

Some studies need people without the illness, often family members.

Volunteer studies

Get support

Patient groups in Austria

  • Österreichische Krebshilfe

    Free, anonymous counselling at regional centres in every federal state, psycho-oncology and emergency financial aid.

    Phone: 01 7966450

Help for every illness in Austria (4)
Available abroad: international groups (8)

Money and work

If the illness stops you working, ask the hospital social worker which benefits you can claim.

  • Which sick-pay or disability benefits can I apply for?
  • Is there help for the carer in the family?
  • Are travel costs to treatment paid back?

After a loss

If someone you love has died, you do not have to go through it alone. Many families ask themselves whether they missed something; the care team can talk this through with you.

We have no grief support group in Austria in our list yet. The hospital's social worker or palliative team can tell you where to find one.

Hospitals and hospices have chaplains and counsellors, for any faith or none.

Some families decide to give tissue to research after death, so that the illness can be studied. If you want to, ask the treating hospital early whether it has such a programme.

Access and cost

  • If no trial fits, your doctor can ask the company and the medicines authority whether early access (compassionate use) is possible.
  • In Austria the medicines agency BASG lists the early-access programmes that are running. BASG (Austria): list of compassionate use programmes, no. 054
  • In the EU you may get planned care in another EU country. Ask your health insurer before you go. Your Europe: planned medical treatment abroad
  • Some medicines for this disease are approved abroad but maybe not here: see “Approved elsewhere” under “Approved in Austria” above.

Don't pay for this

No one will cure you through a Facebook message or ask you to invest money.

Before you pay for anything, ask three things

  1. Can I have a written price, with everything that is included?
  2. Which published study in people shows it helps my disease?
  3. What does my doctor say about it?
More: before you pay

Questions for your doctor

Ready lists for a new diagnosis, during treatment, before a trial and before you pay. Open the question lists

Not medical advice. We show what is open and what is known; your care team decides what fits you.