PMID: 7581117Jul 1, 1995Paper

Acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplasia following intensive chemotherapy for breast cancer

Bone Marrow Transplantation
S Roman-UnferK Chen

Abstract

Two major classes of therapy-related acute myeloid leukemias (t-AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (t-MDS) have been described following the use of conventional doses of alkylating agents and epipodophyllotoxins. They are characterized by distinct clinical presentations and chromosomal abnormalities. We report 2 cases of t-AML and 1 case of t-MDS in 3 out of 36 women who underwent high-dose chemotherapy and attempted ABMT for breast cancer. Two patients developed t-AML 4 and 8 months following the initiation of high-dose chemotherapy with or without ABMT. The third patient developed t-MDS 23 months following dose-intensive chemotherapy and ABMT. Cytogenetic studies of the marrow metaphase chromosomes from the two patients who developed t-AML, including FISH analysis in 1 patient, showed a t(9;11)(p22ng,q23) abnormal chromosome 6 (ring chromosome). Neither patient had a preleukemic phase. Cytogenetic studies from the third patient who developed t-MDS showed abnormalities of chromosome 5 (-5) and a derivative of chromosome 17. The use of multiple chemotherapeutic agents in all 3 patients makes it difficult to attribute the development of these cases of t-MDS/t-AML to a single chemotherapeutic agent. The possible role of dose-inte...Continue Reading

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