Combination chemotherapy of carboplatin and cytosine arabinoside for high-risk leukemia: A pilot study

Noriaki Iwao, Minoru Yoshida, Kiyohiko Hatake, Yoshiaki Hoshino, Shoutaro Hagiwara, Hiroshi Tomizuka, Ritsuko Shimizu, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Yusuke Furukawa, Norio Komatsu, Kazuo Muroi, Akiyoshi Miwa, Shinobu Sakamoto, Yasusada Miura

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Abstract

Fourteen patients with high-risk leukemia (six with relapsed AML, three with relapsed ALL, one with AML-M0, four with CML in myeloid blastic crisis) were treated with a combination chemotherapy of carboplatin (200-300 mg/m2/day) and cytosine arabinoside (100 mg/m2/day) by 24 h continuous infusion for 5-7 days. Five patients (35.7%) achieved complete remission including two patients complicated with myelofibrosis (one with AML-M0 and one with CML in myelo-megakaryocytic crisis). Thirteen patients had nausea and vomiting, five patients had severe, prolonged neutropenia for which it was necessary to administer granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and six patients had severe thrombocytopenia. We concluded that this regimen is effective for the treatment of high-risk leukemia.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)899-903
Number of pages5
JournalLeukemia Research
Volume19
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1995 Dec

Keywords

  • Carboplatin
  • continuous infusion
  • cytosine arabinoside
  • high-risk leukemia
  • prolonged neutropenia

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