Shorter maintenance therapy in childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. The experience of the prospective, randomized Brazilian GBTLI ALL-93 protocol.
Maintenance therapy is an important phase of the childhood ALL treatment, requiring 2-year long therapy adherence of the patients and families. Weekly methotrexate (MTX) with daily 6-mercaptopurine (6MP) constitutes the backbone of maintenance therapy. Reduction in the maintenance therapy could over...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-10-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Pediatrics |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fped.2016.00110/full |