1. Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML): The Role of Maintenance Chemo¬therapy
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Thomas Büchner, Wolfgang Hiddemann, Wolfgang E. Berdel, Bernhard Wörmann, Helmut Löffler, Claudia Schoch, Torsten Haferlach, Wolf-Dieter Ludwig, Georg Maschmeyer, Eva Lengelder, Peter Staib, Reinhard Andreesen, Leopold Balleisen, Detlef Haase, Hartmut Eimermacher, Carlo Aul, Herbert Rasche, Jens Uhlig, Andreas Grüneisen, Hans Edgar Reis, Joachim Hartlapp, Wolf-Dietrich Hirschmann, Hans-Josef Weh, Hermann-Josef Pielken, Winfried Gassmann, Andrea Schumacher, Maria-Cristina Sauerland, and Achim Heinecke for the German AML Cooperative Group
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maintenance therapy ,Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens ,RC254-282 - Abstract
Maintenance treatment for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in remission has recently been controversially discussed and even abandoned by several groups. An analysis of 16 published multicenter trials, however, revealed the highest probabilities of relapse free survival (RFS) in the range of 35-42 % at 4-5 years only in patients assigned to maintenance treatment when adult age and intent-to-treat conditions were considered. After having demonstrated a superior RFS from 3 year maintenance following standard dose consolidation over that from consolidation alone (p
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- 2004