Improvement of Relative Survival in Elderly Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Emerging from Population-Based Cancer Registries in Switzerland from 2001-2013

Introduction:Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) is a rare disease with increasing frequency in the elderly and an emerging impact on health care resources. Trends of classification, incidence, mortality, and survival of AML patients have not yet been reported for Switzerland. Given the demographic ageing, we were mainly interested to investigate whether elderly patients have benefited on a population-based level from the recent changes in AML management.