A randomised comparison of the novel nucleoside analogue sapacitabine with low-dose cytarabine in older patients with acute myeloid leukaemia

Leukemia

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1312-1319

  Burnett, A K ^a   Russell, N ^b   Hills, R K ^a   Panoskaltsis, N ^c   Khwaja, A ^d   Hemmaway, C ^e   Cahalin, P ^f   Clark, R E ^g   Milligan, D ^h  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f BLACKPOOL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; SAPACITABINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ARABINONUCLEOSIDE; CYTOSINE;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERY ELDERLY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CANCER STAGING; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ARABINONUCLEOSIDES; CYTARABINE; CYTOSINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84930575627     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: 14765551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/leu.2015.38     Document Type: Article

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