Mechanisms of Treatment Failure in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Children’s Cancer Group Initiatives
Mechanisms of Treatment Failure in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Children’s Cancer Group Initiatives
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儿童急性淋巴细胞白血病治疗失败的机制:儿童癌症小组倡议
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-60377-8_95
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发表时间:
1997
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影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
F. Uckun
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文献类型:
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作者:
P. Gaynon;B. Bostrom;G. Reaman;H. Sather;M. Trigg;D. Tubergen;F. Uckun
The Children’s Cancer Group (CCG) has conducted clinical trials for children with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) since 1968 and enrolled more than 12000 children. More than 1000 children were enrolled in 1994 alone. Prelimary analyses show a 4-years event-free survival of 74% for the current concluding CCG-1800 series and successive statistically significant 25% reductions in relative risk of failure over the last two series of studies. Several themes may be derived from this experience, (a) early response to therapy is a consistent determinant of outcome; (b) effective intensification of systemic therapy after induction reduces the likelihood of marrow and extramedullary relapse for patients with either favorable or unfavorable presenting features; (c) effective presymptomatic CNS therapy may be provided to all infants and most children without cranial irradiation. However, 18 Gy cranial irradiation may still be useful for a minority of children with higher-risk presenting features. Recent observations point to primary disease resistance to chemotherapy and unfavorable host thiopurine pharmacology as common mechanisms of treatment failure. Resistance to chemotherapy may be linked to resistance to apoptosis. Patients with primary disease resistance may be identified through in vitro assays or poor early marrow response and assigned to more prolonged, more rigorous intensification. We propose to employ laboratory assays of end-induction leukemic burden to measure the specific contribution of anti-CD 19 pokeweed antiviral protein conjugate in the context of complex therapy in known resistant disease. Failure to achieve adequate intracellular levels of thiopurine metabolites may possibly be redressed by parentheral administration and/or substitution of 6-thioguanine (6-TG) for 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP). The reasons for treatment failure in cases of Philadelphia chromosomepositive ALL remain to be elucidated.
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影响因子:
20.3
作者:
Russo,C;Carroll,A;Kohler,S;Borowitz,M;Amylon,M;Homans,A;Kedar,A;Shuster,J;Land,V;Crist,W
通讯作者:
Crist,W
影响因子:
20.3
作者:
Uckun,FM;Downing,JR;Chelstrom,LM;Gunther,R;Ryan,M;Simon,J;Carroll,AJ;Tuel-Ahlgren,L;Crist,WM
通讯作者:
Crist,WM
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.89.19.9005
发表时间:
1992-10-01
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
UCKUN, FM;TUELAHLGREN, L;SCHIEVEN, GL
通讯作者:
SCHIEVEN, GL
影响因子:
158.5
作者:
BARRETT, AJ;HOROWITZ, MM;GALE, RP
通讯作者:
GALE, RP
影响因子:
11.2
作者:
S. Sallan;S. Hitchcock-bryan;R. Gelber;J. Cassady;E. Frei;D. Nathan
通讯作者:
S. Sallan;S. Hitchcock-bryan;R. Gelber;J. Cassady;E. Frei;D. Nathan