Phase-II study of treatment of refractory acute leukemia with intermediate-dose cytosine arabinoside and amsacrine
โ Scribed by U. Jehn; V. Heinemann
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 261 KB
- Volume
- 66
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0939-5555
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Twenty-five adult patients with refractory acute lymphocytic leukemia received salvage therapy with mitoxantrone 5 mg/m2 intravenously over 1 hour daily for 5 days and cytosine arabinoside 3 g/m2 intravenously over 2 hours every 12 hours for six doses. Overall, nine patients (36%) achieved complete