Treatment of philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 98-108

  Fielding, A K ^a   Zakout, G A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Minimal residual disease monitoring; Philadelphia chromosome positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Tyrosine kinase inhibitors

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BCR ABL PROTEIN; BLINATUMOMAB; BOSUTINIB; DASATINIB; DEXAMETHASONE; IMATINIB; NILOTINIB; PONATINIB; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CYTOGENETICS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FETUS DEATH; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; GRAFT VERSUS LEUKEMIA EFFECT; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHILADELPHIA CHROMOSOME ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; PHILADELPHIA CHROMOSOME POSITIVE ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOGENOUS, CHRONIC, BCR-ABL POSITIVE; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 84878767497     PISSN: 15588211     EISSN: 1558822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11899-013-0155-4     Document Type: Article

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