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Chapter and Conference Paper
Sequential Chemotherapy with Mitoxantrone, Etoposide and Cytarabine for Previously Treated Acute Myeloid Leukemia: EMA 86 Regimen
EMA 86 regimen, associating mitoxantrone, 12 mg/m2/day on days 1–3, etoposide, 200 mg/m2/day as a continuous infusion on days 8–10 and cytarabine, 500 mg/m2/day as a continuous infusion on days 1–3 and 8–10, was ...
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Chapter
Burkitt’s Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (L3ALL) in Adults
Accounting for 1–3% of all cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemias (ALL), Burkitt cell ALL (L3ALL) is characterized by the morphology of blast cells, the presence of monoclonal surface immunoglobulins (sIg), and b...
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Chapter
Treatment with Hypomethylating Agents (HMA)
In 1993 Silverman and coworkers [1] reported on a phase 2 trial on 43 patients with higher-risk MDS (medullary blast count >10%) using 75 mg/m2 5-Azacytidine (5-Aza) for 7 days every 28 days for 6 cycles. Forty-n...
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Chapter
Treatment Algorithms for Lower-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndrome
Lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) include patients with very low, low, and part of intermediate revised IPSS (i.e., a score below 4), characterized by a low risk of progression to AML, but often promi...