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Medicina: Oncoematologia pediatrica: Leucemia linfoblastica acuta

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maintenance therapy clicca per ingrandire
Attestation 3
Definition Treatment that is given to help a primary (original) treatment keep working. Maintenance therapy is often given to help keep cancer in remission.The average duration of maintenance therapy for ALL ranges between 2 and 3 years.
Treatment given for a period of months or years to maintain remission and further decrease residual leukema or lymphoma cells in the body. In acute lymphoblastic leukemia , for example, treatment is maintained for several years after remission is induced.
Definition source http://www.leukemia.org/all_glossary.adp
Context Treatment consisted of standard four-drug induction therapy followed by a risk-based intensification phase, reinduction therapy, late intensification, and remission maintenance therapy (total of 104 weeks).
Context source en30
Synonym remission maintenance therapy, continuation therapy.
Subject field Pediatric Oncohematology
de Erhaltungstherapie
it mantenimento
Reliability code 3



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