Swiss medical weekly
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Swiss medical weekly · Oct 1980
Clinical Trial[Acute myeloblastic leukemia in adults: a cure in sight?].
The author inquires what the chances are in 1980 of curing acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) in adults. Efforts toward curative treatment are chiefly concentrated in three places: the basic science laboratories, the clinical laboratories, and the bedside. ⋯ A small number of patients achieve many years of remission and are perhaps even cured, but it is impossible to predict what patients can expect longterm remissions. Painstaking investigation of this group of patients may provide the clue to curative treatment for AML as early as the present decade.