These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: A retrospective study of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia diagnosed and treated at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center during the years 1966-76.
    Author: Inbal A, Modan M, Many A.
    Journal: Isr J Med Sci; 1978 Dec; 14(12):1259-64. PubMed ID: 285048.
    Abstract:
    Forty patients with chronic myeloid leukemia diagnosed and treated at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, during the period 1966-76 were reviewed. All the patients were treated initially with busulfan (MYLERAN). Asymptomatic patients or those whose blood counts were stable and remained below 50,000/microliter were not treated. Maintenance therapy was not prescribed as a routine. The median survival time of all the patients was over 60 months--longer than reported in the literature. Prognostic parameters for longer survival were found to be Hb level greater than 10 g/dl at the time of diagnosis (P = 0.04) and duration of first remission in the chronic stage more than six months (P = 0.03). A borderline trend for better survival was found in patients with initial platelet counts above 100,000/microliter (P = 0.07).
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]