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Selumetinib in combination with dexamethasone for the treatment of relapsed/refractory RAS-pathway mutated paediatric and adult acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (SeluDex): study protocol for an international, parallel-group, dose-finding with expansion phase I/II trial
2021-10-25
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<h4>Introduction</h4> Event free survival rates at 15 years for paediatric patients with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) are 30-50%, with 5-year survival for adult patients only 20%. A large proportion of patients with newly diagnosed and relapsed ALL harbour somatic mutations that activate the RAS-signalling cascade. Steroids are a backbone of all induction blocks of ALL therapy, with prec...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 86cd10b2-6d4f-53cb-9fb5-87a28574f714
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.10.22.21265327
