Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia/Other Myeloid Malignancies Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Health Professional Information [NCI]-Recurrent Childhood AML and Other Myeloid Malignancies

Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia/Other Myeloid Malignancies Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Health Professional Information [NCI] - Recurrent Childhood AML and Other Myeloid Malignancies

Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia/Other Myeloid Malignancies Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Health Professional Information [NCI] Guide

• General Information
• Classification of Pediatric Myeloid Malignancies
• Treatment Overview for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
• Treatment of Newly Diagnosed AML
• Postremission Therapy for AML
• Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia
• Children with Down Syndrome
• Myelodysplastic Syndromes
• Therapy-Related AML / Myelodysplastic Syndromes
• Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia
• Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
• Recurrent Childhood AML and Other Myeloid Malignancies
• Survivorship and Adverse Late Sequelae
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Current Clinical Trials

Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with recurrent childhood acute myeloid leukemia. The list of clinical trials can be further narrowed by location, drug, intervention, and other criteria.

General information about clinical trials is also available from the NCI Web site.

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