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ArticleLeukemia research and treatment2012

Clinical trials of adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma treatment.

Ambroise Marçais, Felipe Suarez, David Sibon, Ali Bazarbachi, Olivier Hermine

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Article in Leukemia research and treatment, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Adult T Cell Leukemia-Lymphoma (ATL): State of the Art.Current hematologic malignancy reports · 2018
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Viral Oncology: Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2017
    Review
  6. Selective targeting of JAK/STAT signaling is potentiated by Bcl-xL blockade in IL-2-dependent adult T-cell leukemia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
    Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Review
  10. Review
  11. Adult T-Cell Leukemia-Lymphoma during Pregnancy.Case reports in oncological medicine · 2013
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ambroise MarçaisDepartment of Hematology, Necker Hospital, 75473 Paris Cedex 15, France.
Felipe Suarez
David Sibon
Ali Bazarbachi
Olivier Hermine

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma (ATLL) is an aggressive malignancy of mature activated T cells caused by human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-1). Prognosis is severe because of intrinsic chemoresistance and severe immuosuppression. Four different subtypes are described with different outcomes, and treatment strategies vary according to the different clinical courses. Japanese trials show that combinations of chemotherapy can increase the response rates especially in the lymphoma subtype. However, patients have a high rate of relapse and the outcome remains extremely poor. Recently, a worldwide meta-analysis demonstrated that the combination of Zidovudine and Interferon-alpha (IFN) is effective in the leukemic subtypes (smoldering, chronic, and acute) and influences favorably the course of the disease. In order to prevent relapse, clinical trials testing new drugs such as monoclonal antibodies or combinations such as arsenic/IFN are needed. Finally, allogeneic stem cell transplantation is a feasible option but bears a very high rate of complications.

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PMID23213552
PMCPMC3504218

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