Bone Marrow Transplantation in Treating Patients With Acute Leukemia in First or Second Remission

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Leukemia

In brief

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more cancer cells. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of bone marrow transplantation using untreated or treated bone marrow in treating patients with acute leukemia in first or second remission.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00002534

Run by

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Starts

1993-05-01

Expected to finish

2003-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-06-26

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center — New York, New York, United States

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