At a press conference during the 2014 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Dr Christoph Röllig (Universitätsklinikum Dresden, Dresden, Germany) discusses the phase II Study Alliance Leukemia (SAL)-Soraml trial, which evaluated sorafenib versus placebo in addition to standard therapy in younger patients (1860 years old) with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukaemia.