Reduced-intensity conditioning for acute myeloid leukemia: Is this strategy correct

Leukemia

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1673-1682

  Lazarus, H M ^a   Rowe, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; ALKYLATING AGENT; AMSACRINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BUSULFAN; CANCER VACCINE; CARMUSTINE; CLADRIBINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; FLUDARABINE; GEMTUZUMAB OZOGAMICIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MELPHALAN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PENTOSTATIN; RAPAMYCIN; RHENIUM 188; THIOTEPA; THYMIDINE KINASE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; TREOSULFAN; YTTRIUM 90;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGING; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRAFT VERSUS LEUKEMIA EFFECT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MORTALITY; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; NONMYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCED INTENSITY CONDITIONING; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SUICIDE GENE THERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 33749028534     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: 14765551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2404328     Document Type: Review

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