From the world renowned Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, this book is written for all physicians who treat patients with acute or chronic leukemias or myelodysplasia.? It is designed to answer questions about treatment approaches that commonly arise in day-to-day practice.? In keeping with the Centers groundbreaking? research in bone marrow transplantation, the book provides exceptional coverage of the role of allogeneic transplant in treatment.? It also addresses the important issues of supportive care and long-term complications of successful treatment.??
Edited and written by experts at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Clinically focused and comprehensive coverage of treatment approaches
Allogeneic transplant addressed in detail
Separate chapters on supportive care and long-term complications
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), by Elihu Estey
- The Treatment of Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL):? Risk Stratification and Strategies, by Andrei R. Shustov
- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), by Jonathan A. Gutman, Kelly M. Smith, and John M. Pagel
- Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML), by Vivian Oehler and Jerry Radich
- Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS), by Bart Lee Scott
- Myeloablative transplant (HCT), by Gunnar Bjarni Ragnarsson and Paul J. Martin
- Reduced-intensity and Non-Myeloablative Conditioning Followed by Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, by Aravind Ramakrishnan and Brenda M. Sandmaier
- Alternative Donor Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation A Role for Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation for Hematologic Malignancies, by Laura F. Newell, Jonathan A. Gutman, and Colleen Delaney
- The Detection and Significance of Minimal Residual Disease, by Jerald P. Radich and Brent L. Wols,