At a press conference during the 2014 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, Prof Farhad Ravandi (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX) discusses the phase III double-blind randomized controlled multinational VALOR study, which evaluated vosaroxin plus cytarabine versus placebo plus cytarabine in patients with first-relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukaemia.