Patients with NPM1-mutated AML M5 who develop spontaneous remission (SR) after antibiotic therapy at diagnosis seem to form a favorable prognosis and chemo sensitive subtype. We report three cases of AML M5 patients with the same genotype that experienced transient SR and are now leukemia free after standard treatment.
Keywords: NPM1 mutation; acute myeloid leukemia; monocytic leukemia; spontaneous remission.