Decitabine combined with minimally myelosuppressive therapy for induction of remission in pediatric high-risk acute myeloid leukemia with chromosome 5q deletion: a report of three cases
Published date:
02/18/2022
Excerpt:
Management of AML with monosomy 5/del(5q) has been inconsistent. We treated three adolescents with this AML subtype using combined low-dose cytarabine and mitoxantrone, concurrently with decitabine and G-CSF, for remission induction. Decitabine was also included in the conditioning regimen before hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). All three patients achieved complete remission after treatment with this combination therapy.