Leukemia

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Chemotherapy - Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)



The most common drug treatment plan used to treat AML is the combination of 3 days of an anthracycline (e.g., daunorubicin, doxorubicin) and 7 days of ara-C. This plan is known as the three-plus-seven method. Some oncologists also add the drug 6-thioguanine to the mix (see option 2), although most studies indicate that this agent does not improve the rates or length of remission.



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