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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Guido Marcucci
PROVIDER: E-TABM-1029 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

Blood 20100723 18
The clinical impact of FLT3-internal tandem duplications (ITDs), an adverse prognostic marker in adults aged < 60 years with primary cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia (CN-AML), requires further investigation in older patients. In CN-AML patients aged ≥ 60 years treated on Cancer and Leukemia Group B frontline trials, we found that FLT3-ITD remained associated with shorter disease-free survival (P < .001; hazard ratio = 2.10) and overall survival (P < .001; hazard ratio = 1.97) in mul ...[more]