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SUBMITTER: Bertoli S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4007924 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bertoli Sarah S Bories Pierre P Béné Marie C MC Daliphard Sylvie S Lioure Bruno B Pigneux Arnaud A Vey Norbert N Delaunay Jacques J Leymarie Vincent V Luquet Isabelle I Blanchet Odile O Cornillet-Lefebvre Pascale P Hunault Mathilde M Bouscary Didier D Fegueux Nathalie N Guardiola Philippe P Dreyfus François F Harousseau Jean Luc JL Cahn Jean Yves JY Ifrah Norbert N Récher Christian C
Haematologica 20130823 1
Early response to chemotherapy has a major prognostic impact in acute myeloid leukemia patients treated with a double induction strategy. Less is known about patients treated with standard-dose cytarabine and anthracycline. We designed a risk-adapted remission induction regimen in which a second course of intermediate-dose cytarabine was delivered after standard "7+3" only if patients had 5% or more bone marrow blasts 15 days after chemotherapy initiation (d15-blasts). Of 823 included patients, ...[more]