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Blastic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia is a phase of chronic myelogenous leukemia in which more than 30% of the cells in the blood or bone marrow are blast cells (immature blood cells). When tiredness , fever , and an enlarged spleen occur during the blastic phase, it is called blast crisis .
Blast crisis is the terminal phase of CML and clinically behaves like an acute leukemia. Drug treatment will usually stop this progression if early. One of the drivers of the progression from chronic phase through acceleration and blast crisis is the acquisition of new chromosomal abnormalities (in addition to the Philadelphia chromosome). [7]
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The drug is approved in multiple contexts of Philadelphia chromosome-positive CML, including after stem cell transplant, in blast crisis, and newly diagnosed. [ 12 ] Due in part to the development of imatinib and related drugs, the five-year survival rate for people with chronic myeloid leukemia increased from 31% in 1993, to 59% in 2009, [ 13 ...
A meta-analysis of 4 previous studies reported that 72 individuals receiving allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (AHSCT) for RT (almost all cases were DLBCL-RT) achieved an overall response rate (percentage of patients showing a decrease in their disease) of 79%, complete response rate (percentage of patients showing an apparent ...
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A score of 0 indicates a low risk group' 1-2 indicates an intermediate risk group and 3-4 indicates a high risk group. The cumulative 2 year survival of scores 0, 1-2 and 3-4 is 91%, 52% and 9%; and risk of AML transformation is 0%, 19% and 54% respectively. [10]