Treatment of Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia with imatinib in combination with chemotherapy

Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 180-187

  Ohno, Ryuzo ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BCR ABL PROTEIN; CYTARABINE; IMATINIB; METHOTREXATE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; PHILADELPHIA 1 CHROMOSOME; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; FUSION PROTEINS, BCR-ABL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOGENOUS, CHRONIC, BCR-ABL POSITIVE; METHOTREXATE; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PIPERAZINES; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PYRIMIDINES; REMISSION INDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 33750337682     PISSN: 15588211     EISSN: 1558822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11899-996-0006-7     Document Type: Review

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