Leukemia and Related Disorders
Integrated Treatment Approaches
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This chapter will deal primarily with issues faced by physicians in the management of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDSs). Accordingly, emphasis will be placed on assessing these patients’ prognoses...
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Most statistical methods for dose-finding in phase I clinical trials determine a maximum tolerable dose based on toxicity while ignoring efficacy. Most phase II designs assume that an acceptable dose has been ...
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Therapy of rapidly fatal diseases often requires multiple courses of treatment. In each course, the treatment may achieve the desired clinical goal, “response,” the patient may survive without response, “failu...
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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is proving to be a heterogeneous disease process that is driven by various genetic mutations and aberrant protein expression. As our population ages, the incidence of AML is likely...
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Cancers that appear pathologically similar often respond differently to the same drug regimens. Methods to better match patients to drugs are in high demand. We demonstrate a promising approach to identify rob...
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Outcomes with “7 + 3” are often unsatisfactory in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Trials demonstrating improved outcomes with high-dose cytarabine, addition of cladribine, or escalated anthracycline doses prompt...
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Gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO), a humanized anti-CD33 monoclonal antibody conjugated to the cytotoxic antibiotic agent calicheamicin, is approved for the treatment of newly-diagnosed CD33 + AML in adults and child...
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Secondary AML (sAML), defined by either history of antecedent hematologic disease (AHD) or prior genotoxic therapy (tAML), is classically regarded as having worse prognosis than de novo disease (dnAML). Clinic...
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