Acute promyelocytic leukemia current treatment algorithms

Abstract In 1957, Hillestad et al. defined acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) for the first time in the literature as a distinct type of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with a “rapid downhill course” characterized with a severe bleeding tendency. APL, accounting for 10–15% of the newly diagnosed AML ca...

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Main Authors: Musa Yilmaz, Hagop Kantarjian, Farhad Ravandi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Blood Cancer Journal
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41408-021-00514-3