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Recent advances in acute promyelocytic leukaemia
2017-07-28
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Acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APML) is a subtype of leukaemia arising from a distinct reciprocal translocation involving chromosomes 15 and 17, which results in the PML-RARA fusion gene. Over the past three decades, APML has been transformed from a highly fatal disease to a highly curable one. This drastic improvement is because of the introduction of a new treatment strategy with all-trans retinoic acid and, mor...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 402a3e04-41d9-5e5b-bd2c-786855593fdb
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.10736.1