Salvage therapy for refractory or relapsed acute lymphocytic leukemia

Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 2001 Feb;15(1):163-205. doi: 10.1016/s0889-8588(05)70204-5.

Abstract

The overall prognosis for patients with relapsed or refractory adult ALL remains poor. Further insight into the biology of ALL is required, and novel therapeutic agents are needed to counter mechanisms of resistance. A palliative approach to the management of multiply relapsed or refractory ALL should be supplanted by enrollment into clinic trials to promote drug discovery. Monitoring of minimal residual disease may allow an earlier intervention before overt clinical relapse and improve outcome; prospective studies are needed. Attainment of a second or later CR should be followed by allogeneic BMT when feasible owing to the paucity of long-term survivors with salvage chemotherapy alone.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1 / antagonists & inhibitors
  • ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1 / physiology
  • Adult
  • Angiogenesis Inhibitors / therapeutic use
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal / therapeutic use
  • Antineoplastic Agents / pharmacology
  • Antineoplastic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Apoptosis / drug effects
  • Apoptosis / genetics
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation
  • Cancer Care Facilities / statistics & numerical data
  • Child
  • Chromosome Aberrations
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • DNA Methylation / drug effects
  • Disease-Free Survival
  • Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
  • Enzyme Inhibitors / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Immunophenotyping
  • Multicenter Studies as Topic
  • Neoplasm Proteins / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Neoplasm Proteins / physiology
  • Oligonucleotides, Antisense / therapeutic use
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / drug therapy
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / mortality
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / pathology
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / radiotherapy
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / therapy*
  • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Recurrence
  • Remission Induction
  • Risk Factors
  • Salvage Therapy*
  • Survival Analysis
  • Texas / epidemiology
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1
  • Angiogenesis Inhibitors
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Enzyme Inhibitors
  • Neoplasm Proteins
  • Oligonucleotides, Antisense
  • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases