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Old Tue Apr 28, 2009, 03:27 PM
Birgitta-A Birgitta-A is offline
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Salvage therapy

Hi Eli,
You know it is very difficult to compare the reported results from the 3 treatments you wrote about because the patients in the studies can be MDS patients with a better prognosis or AML patients. I can't find any new studies with CECA.

FLAG MDS/AML patients
Complete remission rate 71%
http://www.uptodate.com/patients/con...IPdQ&refNum=67

CLAG AML patients
Complete response occurred in 44% of SC patients lasting a median of 222 days
http://abstracts.hematologylibrary.o...urcetype=HWCIT

CECA AML patients
3 complete remissions in 25 patients (12%). This abstract is very old (1998) and at that time the supportive therapy was not as good as it is today.
http://www.epidna.com/showabstract.p...terms=ceca+aml

Hope your doctor chooses a treatment with good results and few adverse reactions!
Kind regards
Birgitta-A
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