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BLOOD
Volume 111, Issue 3, Pages 1078-1084Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2007-07-099978
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All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) plus anthracycline chemotherapy is the reference treatment of newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), whereas the role of cytosine arabinoside (AraC) remains disputed. We performed a joint analysis of patients younger than 65 years included in Programa para el Estudio de la Terapeutica en Hemopatia Maligna (PETHEMA) LPA 99 trial, where patients received no AraC in addition to ATRA, high cumulative dose idarubicin, and mitoxantrone, and APL 2000 trial, where patients received AraC in addition to ATRA and lower cumulative dose daunorubicin. In patients with white blood cell (WBC) count less than 10 x 10(9)/L, complete remission (CR) rates were similar, but 3-year cumulative incidence of relapse (CIR) was significantly lower in LPA 99 trial: 4.2% versus 14.3% (P =.03), although 3-year survival was similar in both trials. This suggested that AraC is not required in APL with WBC count less than 10 x 109/L, at least in trials with high-dose anthracycline and maintenance treatment. In patients with WBC of 10 x 10(9)/L or more, however, the CR rate (95.1% vs 83.6% P=.018) and 3-year survival (91.5% vs 80.8%, P =.026) were significantly higher in APL 2000 trial, and there was a trend for lower 3-year CIR (9.9% vs 18.5%, P =.12), suggesting a beneficial role for AraC in those patients.
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