Abstract:Background: Relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) remains challenging to treat with an extremely poor prognosis. Salvage chemotherapy regimens can achieve complete remission (CR) rates of 30-50%, but CRs are not durable without hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Outcomes in untreated adolescents and young adults have improved with the use of pediatric chemotherapy regimens, but data on the use of pediatric chemotherapy regimens in relapsed/refractory adult ALL is lacking. We chose t… Show more
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