A group of Italian and German researchers has found that people with a certain type of leukemia can be successfully treated without using chemotherapy. The study included 156 people with acute promyelocytic leukemia, a type of acute myeloid leukemia. In the study, researchers compared 2 drug combinations in patients with low- to intermediate-risk levels of the disease. They wanted to test whether patients taking ATRA plus arsenic trioxide would do as well as patients taking ATRA plus chemotherapy, thereby avoiding the side effects from chemotherapy. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Lo-Coco F, et al. Retinoic acid and arsenic trioxide for acute promyelocytic leukemia. N Engl J Med. 2013 Jul 11;369(2):111-21. PMID: 23841729
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