Abstract
In the last 30 years, a multitude of treatment regimens for adult acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) has been developed. Essentially, all of these regimens use an induction therapy vincristine, prednisone, and an anthracycline intensified with L-asparaginase or cyclophosphamide. Though such regimens induce most patients to enter a remission, relapse is frequent, and most adult patients ultimately die of their disease. The author postulated that further refinements in this approach to induction therapy were unlikely to markedly improve treatment results in this disease. Therefore, the author is studying a new intensive strategy using cytarabine with a single very high dose of mitoxantrone (without vincristine or prednisone) as induction therapy for adult patients with ALL.
MeSH terms
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / adverse effects
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Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
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Carmustine / administration & dosage
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Clinical Trials, Phase II as Topic
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Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic
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Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic
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Cyclophosphamide / administration & dosage
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Cytarabine / administration & dosage
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Cytarabine / adverse effects
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Dactinomycin / administration & dosage
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Doxorubicin / administration & dosage
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Etoposide / administration & dosage
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Female
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Filgrastim
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Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / therapeutic use
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Humans
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Male
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Mercaptopurine / administration & dosage
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Methotrexate / administration & dosage
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Middle Aged
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Mitoxantrone / administration & dosage
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Mitoxantrone / adverse effects
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Multicenter Studies as Topic
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Neutropenia / chemically induced
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Neutropenia / prevention & control
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Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / drug therapy*
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Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / mortality
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Prednisone / administration & dosage
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Prospective Studies
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Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
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Recombinant Proteins
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Remission Induction
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Survival Analysis
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Treatment Outcome
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Vincristine / administration & dosage
Substances
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Recombinant Proteins
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Cytarabine
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Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor
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Dactinomycin
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Vincristine
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Etoposide
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Doxorubicin
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Cyclophosphamide
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Mitoxantrone
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Mercaptopurine
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Filgrastim
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Carmustine
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Prednisone
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Methotrexate