• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Modern Therapy of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
  • Beteiligte: Bassan, Renato; Hoelzer, Dieter
  • Erschienen: American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2011
  • Erschienen in: Journal of Clinical Oncology, 29 (2011) 5, Seite 532-543
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1200/jco.2010.30.1382
  • ISSN: 0732-183X; 1527-7755
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p> Although acute lymphoblastic leukemia is curable in one third of adult patients, results vary greatly on account of different clinical, immunologic, and cytogenetic/genetic characteristics. These data, along with the kinetics of response to early treatment, help establish the individual risk class with considerable accuracy, and support risk-specific treatments that should warrant optimal results with as little as possible nonrelapse mortality. Modern first-line therapy consists of standard- and high-dose chemotherapy (increasingly inspired to pediatric principles), hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation, and new targeted therapy, all integrated with the analysis of prognostic factors and the study of subclinical residual disease for key therapeutic decisions. These changes are improving long-term outcome, which in ongoing studies is expected close to 50% or greater. </jats:p>
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