Daunorubicin in acute leukaemia
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Daunorubicin in acute leukaemia.
Daunorubicin has been used in the treatment of six cases of acute lymphoblastic and thirteen cases of acute myeloblastic and mono-myeloblastic leukaemia. Complete remissions were obtained in eight patients, three with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and five with acute myeloblastic leukaemia. Marrow aplasia makes the drug difficult to administer, but no patients died from this cause, in this seri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1970
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.46.535.272