Author(s)

Marta Zapata-Tarrés¹, Rocío Cárdenas-Cardós¹, Liliana Velasco-Hidalgo¹, Martín Pérez-García², Alberto Olaya-Vargas², Daniela Cárdenas-Pedraza¹, Roberto Rivera-Luna^3*

¹Oncology Department, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, México City, México.
²Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, México City, México.
³Division of Hem-Oncology, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, México City, México.

Background: In Mexico, AML survival is referred in 30%. Our aim was to evaluate results with ADE protocol as induction treatment in children with non-M3 AML in a public Mexican institution. Method: We included patients with AML in a single institution between 2005 and 2013. All non-M3-AML patients received ADE as induction therapy (cytarabine 100 mg/m² in continuous infusion from day 1 to 7, daunorrubicin 30 mg/m² days 1, 3, 5 and etoposide 100 mg/m² over days 1 to 5). Patients received antibiotic prophylaxis and strict scheduled appointments to assure adherence and prevent avoidable emergencies. Main Results: Eighteen patients were included. Median age was 106 months. One patient died at diagnosis so 17 were eligible for induction results analysis; eleven needed two cycles and six patients three. Remission rate was 100%. Analyzing non-M3 patients overall survival was 80.2% at 100 months. No fatal complications were observed. Stratifying by number of cycles we observe that patients receiving one ADE cycle had a 0% overall survival at short follow up, with 2 ADE cycles 80% at 100 months and with 3 cycles 100% at 60 months. Conclusion: ADE induction therapy showed improved results in overall survival compared with other standard regimens. Following the protocol we obtained 100% remission. This is an important achievement in our population. Our focus must be to ameliorate maintenance final results. These results should be reproduced in other hospitals in Mexico and other countries.

Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Children, Treatment, ADE

Zapata-Tarrés, M. , Cárdenas-Cardós, R. , Velasco-Hidalgo, L. , Pérez-García, M. , Olaya-Vargas, A. , Cárdenas-Pedraza, D. and Rivera-Luna, R. (2016) ADE as Induction Therapy Results in Treatment of Children with Non-M3 High-Risk Acute Myeloid Leukemia, an Extrapolable Achievement in Developing Countries. Journal of Cancer Therapy, 7, 197-202. doi: 10.4236/jct.2016.73020.