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Molecular response and quality of life in chronic myeloid leukemia patients treated with intermittent TKIs: First interim analysis of OPTkIMA study.

Michele MalagolaAlessandra IurloElisabetta AbruzzeseMassimiliano BonifacioFabio StagnoGianni BinottoMariella D'AddaMonia LunghiMonica CrugnolaMaria Luisa FerrariFrancesca LunghiFausto CastagnettiGianantonio RostiRoberto M LemoliRosaria SancettaMaria Rosaria CoppiMaria Teresa CorsettiGiovanna Rege CambrinAtelda RomanoMario TiribelliAntonella Russo RossiSabina RussoLara AprileMonica BocchiaLisa GandolfiMirko FarinaSimona BernardiNicola PolverelliAldo M RoccaroAntonio De VivoMichele BaccaraniDomenico Russo
Published in: Cancer medicine (2021)
De-escalation of any TKI by 1 month ON/OFF schedule maintains the MR3.0 /MR4.0 in 81% of the patients during the first 12-24 months. No patients progressed to accelerated/blastic phase, all the patients (23.5%) losing MR3.0 regained the MR3.0 and none suffered from TKI withdrawn syndrome. The study firstly report on HRQoL in elderly CML patients moving from a continuous daily therapy to a de-escalated intermittent treatment.
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