Validation Of a Brief Arsenic Trioxide (ATO)-Based Consolidation Chemotherapy In The Upfront Management Of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APL): Less Anthracycline Exposure and Faster Completion Of Consolidation Therapy With Equivalent Survival
Leech M, Stewart M, Zhang X, Bashey A, Holland H, Solomon S, Carraway H, Smith B, Morris L, Gore S, Zeidan A. Validation Of a Brief Arsenic Trioxide (ATO)-Based Consolidation Chemotherapy In The Upfront Management Of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (APL): Less Anthracycline Exposure and Faster Completion Of Consolidation Therapy With Equivalent Survival. Blood 2013, 122: 3963. DOI: 10.1182/blood.v122.21.3963.3963.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAcute promyelocytic leukemiaLeukemia-free survivalComplete remissionOverall survivalAnthracycline exposureConsolidation chemotherapyMaintenance therapyIntensive therapyOriginal trialM2/dATRA-ATO combinationContinuous infusion cytarabineSignificant cardiac toxicityLow-risk diseaseMonths of therapyHigh-risk diseaseKaplan-Meier methodologyOriginal clinical trialsCourse of therapyCompletion of protocolTrans retinoic acidChemotherapy consolidationConsolidation therapyInduction therapyIntravenous daunorubicin