Early response does not predict outcome in children and adolescents with chronic myeloid leukaemia treated with high-dose imatinib

Affiliations

• ¹ Haematology, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Haematology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
• ² Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turin at Orbassano, Turin, Italy.
• ³ Paediatric Haematology Unit, Santobono-Pausilipon Hospital, Naples, Italy.
• ⁴ Department of Women's and Children's Health,  Padova University Hospital, Padua, Italy.
• ⁵ Clinical Experimental Haematology Unit, Gaslini Research Institute, Genoa, Italy.
• ⁶ Division of Haematology, Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli Hospital, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
• ⁷ U.O. di Oncologia ed Ematologia Oncologica Pediatrica, Policlinico, Bari, Italy.
• ⁸ Department of Paediatrics, "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza" Hospital, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
• ⁹ Paediatric Haemato-Oncology Unit, Ospedale Regionale per le Microcitemie, Cagliari, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Department of Reproduction and Growth, University Hospital Sant'Anna in Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
• ¹¹ Haemato-Oncology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera "Pugliese-Ciaccio", Catanzaro, Italy.
• ¹² Paediatric Unit, Ospedale di Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
• ¹³ Department of Paediatrics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
• ¹⁴ Dipartimento di Oncoematologia Pediatrica, IRCCS Ospedale Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁵ Dipartimento di Scienze Pediatriche Università di Pavia, Italy.