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Outcome of older adults with cytogenetically normal AML (CN-AML) and FLT3 mutations.
Leukemia research - 1 Dec 2011
Singh Harshabad, Asali Salma, Werner Lillian L, DeAngelo Daniel J, Ballen Karen K, Amrein Philip C, Wadleigh Martha, Galinsky Ilene, Neuberg Donna S, Fox Edward A, Stone Richard M, Attar Eyal C
Abstract excerpt
AML patients under the age of 60 whose blasts harbor a FLT3 internal tandem duplication (ITD) mutation have a higher relapse rate and inferior survival compared to those without this mutation. To determine if FLT3ITD also carries a negative prognostic impact in older adults receiving therapies commonly used in this age group, we retrospectively analyzed outcomes of patients ≥60 years with CN-AML according to FLT3...
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