Low-dose tyrosine kinase inhibitors before treatment discontinuation do not impair treatment-free remission in chronic myeloid leukemia patients: Results of a retrospective study.
Emilie CayssialsJose Torregrosa-DiazPilar Gallego-HernanzFlorence TartarinThomas SystchenkoNatacha MaillardDéborah DesmierAntoine MachetEmmanuel FleckAnne CorbyCarine MotardGuillaume DenisAndré HerbelinJean-Marc GombertLydia RoyStéphanie RagotXavier LeleuFrançois GuilhotJean-Claude ChomelPublished in: Cancer (2020)
This retrospective study shows that TFR was not impaired by low-dose TKI regimens before TKI cessation in Patients with CML. Nevertheless, prospective randomized clinical trials must be undertaken to analyze the probability of successful TFR in patients managed with TKI dose de-escalation strategies before TKI discontinuation.