Journal
BLOOD
Volume 109, Issue 9, Pages 3676-3678Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2006-10-052746
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Thirty elderly (> 60 years) Philadelphia chromosome-positive (Ph+) patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) received imatinib, 800 mg daily, associated to steroids without further chemotherapy as frontline treatment. Median age was 69 years (range, 61-83 years). Twenty-nine patients were evaluable for response and all of them obtained a hematologic complete remission, with a median BCR-ABL reduction of 2.9 and 2.0 logs in p190(+) and p210(+) cases, respectively. Most of the induction treatment did not require admission of the patients. No major toxicities occurred and the treatment was well tolerated. Median survival from diagnosis was 20 months. This study shows that elderly Ph+ patients with ALL-often considered eligible only for palliative treatment strategies-may benefit from an imatinib-steroids protocol, which does not require chemotherapy nor a long hospitalization, is feasible, highly active, and associated with a good quality of life. (C) 2007 by The American Society of Hematology.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available