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Differentiation Therapy of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

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Tumor Biology

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASIH,volume 99))

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Abstract

Abnormal are the malignant cells. The genome is abnormal including chromosomal translocations, gene deletions or mutations. Malignant cell seems to be in an irreversible state. Therefore the only way to treat a patient with cancer is to eliminate the tumor by surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and more recently immunotherapy.

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  1. Institut d’Hématologie, Hopital Saint Louis, 1, avenue Claude Vellefaux, 75010, Paris, France

    Laurent Degos

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  1. Laboratory of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Asterios S. Tsiftsoglou

  2. Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, 06510, New Haven, CT, USA

    Alan C. Sartorelli

  3. Department of Biology, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E17-536, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    David E. Housman

  4. Department of Experimental Hematology, Christie Hospital, NHS Trust Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Wilmslow Road, M20 9BX, Manchester, UK

    T. Michael Dexter

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Degos, L. (1996). Differentiation Therapy of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia. In: Tsiftsoglou, A.S., Sartorelli, A.C., Housman, D.E., Dexter, T.M. (eds) Tumor Biology. NATO ASI Series, vol 99. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61180-3_4

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