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Improved Results of Treatment of Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
- Source :
- Blood; April 1987, Vol. 69 Issue: 4 p1242-1248, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 1987
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Abstract
- We designed a treatment program to improve the outcome for adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Treatment included a remission-induction phase followed by intensive alternating cycles of non-cross-résistant chemotherapy and prolonged oral maintenance therapy. Eighty-one consecutive previously untreated patients were entered on this study. Ninety-four percent of patients entered complete remission. A Kaplan-Meier analysis pre dicts that 53% ± 9% (SEM) of patients in remission will remain free of disease at 3 years. Neither age, sex, WBC count, nor immunophenotype had a significant effect on remission duration. This program of intensive cyclical chemotherapy has improved the disease-free survival of patients with adult ALL.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00064971 and 15280020
- Volume :
- 69
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Blood
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- ejs57044701
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.V69.4.1242.1242