title: Cooperative randomized studies on the treatment of adult acute leukemia in Poland. A comparison of two remission induction regimes and two maintenance regimes for AML.
abstract: In a prospective study 100 AML cases were randomized in two groups and underwent remission induction treatment in 4 departments with "Ara-C c. inf. from the first to the eight day plus Adr. from the first to the third day" or "Ara-C + 6-TG + Adr., 6 + 6 + 2 days". The CR patients were divided into two subgroups. Subgroup A obtained maintenance therapy with 5 day course of Ara-C s.c. in addition to 6-TG, Vincristine plus Prednisone and Adriamycin sequentially, with each cycle repeated at 6 week intervals. Subgroup B obtained the calf thymus extract (TFX-Polfa) between the cycles additionally. The current results of remission induction treatment are similar to "8 + 3" and "6 + 6" regimens as measured by the CR rate (45% and 44%), survival curves (survival after 24 months - 23% and 28% respectively) and relapse rates (3.5%/pt.mo.obs. and 5.3%/pt.mo.obs.). It is still too early to evaluate the efficacy of this maintenance treatment, because the programme is still open to patient entries. At present 13 patients received maintenance regimen A and 12 patients received maintenance regimen B, with an average survival being equal to 14 and 13.5 months respectively.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D002417:Cattle / Q000276:immunology; D003561:Cytarabine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006098:Granulocytes / Q000637:transplantation; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D017713:Platelet Transfusion; D011044:Poland; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011897:Random Allocation; D013866:Thioguanine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000276:immunology; D014020:Tissue Extracts / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D014020:Tissue Extracts; D003561:Cytarabine; D004317:Doxorubicin; D013866:Thioguanine