𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

I17 Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in adults

✍ Scribed by D. Hoelzer; N. G¨okbuget

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
90 KB
Volume
21
Category
Article
ISSN
0268-960X

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Recent treatment strategies in adult ALL mainly include (1) intensification of induction and consolidation chemotherapy, (2) molecular targeting, particularly in Ph/bcr abl pos-ALL, (3) antibody therapy and (4) extension of stem cell transplantation (SCT). New diagnostic tools are used to refine definition of prognostic subgroups and to develop a new risk stratification. They include (5) evaluation of minimal residual disease (MRD) and (6) microarray techniques.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemi
Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in adults
✍ Prof. Tiziano Barbui; Renato Bassan; Teodoro Chisesi; Raffaele Battista; Sergio 📂 Article 📅 1985 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 276 KB

Thirty-seven adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia were treated with a protocol called HEAV'D including Adriamycin, Vincristine, L-Asparaginase, Cyclophosphamide and Dexamethasone. The complete remission rate was 70 per cent. The median duration of remission was more than 30 months. Patie

Treatment of adult acute lymphoblastic l
Treatment of adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia with adriamycin, vincristine, and prednisone
✍ Aviles, Agustin ;Sinco, Armando ;Rivera, Raul ;Ambriz, Raul ;Herrera, Jose G. ;P 📂 Article 📅 1983 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 413 KB

At the present time, it is possible to achieve up to a 95% complete remission in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, using the combination of vincristine and prednisone. Nevertheless, it has not been possible to reproduce these results in the adult. For this reason, a third drug, in this case a

Remission maintenance of adult acute lym
Remission maintenance of adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia
✍ Armitage, James O. ;Burns, C. Patrick 📂 Article 📅 1977 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 325 KB

## Abstract This report describes the results of a study of central nervous system (CNS) prophylaxis and combination chemotherapy for the maintenance of remission in adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who achieved complete remission were treated with 2,400