Abstract
Fourteen patients with high-risk leukemia (six with relapsed AML, three with relapsed ALL, one with AML-M0, four with CML in myeloid blastic crisis) were treated with a combination chemotherapy of carboplatin (200–300 mg/m 2/day) and cytosine arabinoside (100 mg/m 2/day) by 24 h continuous infusion for 5–7 days. Five patients (35.7%) achieved complete remission including two patients complicated with myelofibrosis (one with AML-M0 and one with CML in myelo-megakaryocytic crisis). Thirteen patients had nausea and vomiting, five patients had severe, prolonged neutropenia for which it was necessary to administer granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and six patients had severe thrombocytopenia. We concluded that this regimen is effective for the treatment of high-risk leukemia.
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