Case of chronic-phase chronic myelogenous leukemia with an abdominal hematopoietic tumor of leukemic clone origin

Complete hematologic and cytogenetic res

Complete hematologic and cytogenetic response to 2-amino-9-β-D-arabinosyl-6-methoxy-9H-guanine in a patient with chronic myelogeneous leukemia in T-cell blastic phase : A case report and review of the literature

✍ Alvaro Aguayo; Jorge E. Cortes; Hagop M. Kantarjian; Miloslav Beran; Varsha Gand 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 97 KB 👁 1 views

## BACKGROUND. T-cell lymphoid blastic phase (BP) transformation is rare in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). 2-amino-9-␤-D-arabinosyl-6-methoxy-9H-guanine (GW506U78), a prodrug of arabinosylguanine (ara-G), is effective in T-cell leukemias. ## METHODS. The authors present a case of a 48-year