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Synergistic effect of sorafenib and cGvHD in patients with high-risk FLT3-ITD+AML allows long-term disease control after allogeneic transplantation.
Annals of hematology - 1 Nov 2015
Tschan-Plessl A, Halter J P, Heim D, Medinger M, Passweg J R, Gerull S
Abstract excerpt
The multikinase inhibitor sorafenib has shown a strong anti-leukemic effect in FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3)-mutated acute myeloid leukemia (AML); however, remission is often transient. To better understand the role of sorafenib, we performed a retrospective analysis of all patients who received sorafenib in combination with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) at our center. Seventeen...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Female
- Graft vs Host Disease
- Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
- Humans
- Induction Chemotherapy
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
