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Abstract
Of 112 patients (maximum age 70 years) with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia, 62 (55%) went into remission on an induction therapy of cytosine arabinoside and daunorubicin. 20 patients were randomized for maintenance treatment consisting of chemotherapy only and 22 patients for combined chemo-immunotherapy. The chemotherapy consisted in 5-day courses of daunorubicin and cytosine arabinoside and of thioguanine and cytosine arabinoside, alternating every month. The chemo-immunotherapy group also received weekly intracutaneous injections of 109 allogeneic nonirradiated leukemic myeloblasts and 106 BCG organisms (Glaxo) by Heaf gun.
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