作者: Monique Terwijn , Wim L.J. van Putten , Angèle Kelder , Vincent H.J. van der Velden , Rik A. Brooimans
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摘要: Purpose Half the patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who achieve complete remission (CR), ultimately relapse. Residual treatment-surviving is considered responsible for outgrowth of AML. In many retrospective studies, detection minimal residual disease (MRD) has been shown to enable identification these poor-outcome by showing its independent prognostic impact. Most studies focus on molecular markers or analyze data in retrospect. This study establishes value immunophenotypically assessed MRD context a multicenter clinical trial adult AML sample collection and analysis performed few specialized centers.