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ReviewBlood cancer journal2021

Acute promyelocytic leukemia current treatment algorithms.

Musa Yilmaz, Hagop Kantarjian, Farhad Ravandi

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Review in Blood cancer journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 115 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
115citing papers in PubMed
12.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

115 citing papers in PubMed, 229 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Musa YilmazThe Department of Leukemia, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4498-4895
Hagop KantarjianThe Department of Leukemia, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1908-3307
Farhad RavandiThe Department of Leukemia, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA. fravandi@mdanderson.org.ORCID 0000-0002-7621-377X
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

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 cases, results from a balanced translocation, t(15;17) (q22;q12-21), which leads to the fusion of the promyelocytic leukemia (PML) gene with the retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARA) gene. The PML-RARA fusion oncoprotein induces leukemia by blocking normal myeloid differentiation. Before using anthracyclines in APL therapy in 1973, no effective treatment was available. In the mid-1980s, all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) monotherapy was used with high response rates, but response durations were short. Later, the development of ATRA, chemotherapy, and arsenic trioxide combinations turned APL into a highly curable malignancy. In this review, we summarize the evolution of APL therapy, focusing on key milestones that led to the standard-of-care APL therapy available today and discuss treatment algorithms and management tips to minimize induction mortality.

Indexed as

AlgorithmsLeukemia, Promyelocytic, AcuteOncogene Proteins, FusionAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsArsenic TrioxideHumansTretinoinArsenic TrioxideOncogene Proteins, FusionTretinoin

Identifiers

PMID34193815
PMCPMC8245494
OpenAlexW3177014409

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