Superior outcome with hypomethylating therapy in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome and chromosome 5 and 7 abnormalities

Cancer

Volumn 115, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5746-5751

  Ravandi, Farhad ^a   Issa, Jean Pierre ^a   Garcia Manero, Guillermo ^a   O'Brien, Susan ^a   Pierce, Sherry ^a   Shan, Jianqin ^a   Borthakur, Gautam ^a   Verstovsek, Srdan ^a   Faderl, Stefan ^a   Cortes, Jorge ^a   Kantarjian, Hagop ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

5 Azacytidine; Acute myeloid leukemia; Chemotherapy; Decitabine; High risk myelodysplastic syndrome

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; AZACITIDINE; CLOFARABINE; CLORETAZINE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUDARABINE; IDARUBICIN; MIDOSTAURIN; PRAVASTATIN; RETINOIC ACID; TIOGUANINE; TIPIFARNIB; VALPROIC ACID; VORINOSTAT;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; AZACITIDINE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73149099172     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24661     Document Type: Article

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