Cytotoxic Chemotherapy-Based Predictive Assays for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

The invention relates to methods, systems and kits for determining therapeutic effectiveness or toxicity of cancer-treating compounds that incorporate into or bind to DNA. In particular, the invention is directed to methods, systems and kits for predicting a patient's treatment outcome after ad...

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Hauptverfasser: Zimmermann, Maike, Scharadin, Tiffany, De Vere White, Ralph W, Cimino, George D, Pan, Chong-Xian, Malfatti, Michael A, Jonas, Brian, Henderson, Paul, Turteltaub, Kenneth W
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Zusammenfassung:The invention relates to methods, systems and kits for determining therapeutic effectiveness or toxicity of cancer-treating compounds that incorporate into or bind to DNA. In particular, the invention is directed to methods, systems and kits for predicting a patient's treatment outcome after administration of a microdose of therapeutic composition to the patient or a sample from the patient. The methods provides physicians with a diagnostic tool to segregate cancer patients into differential populations that have a higher or lower chance of responding to a particular therapeutic treatment.