Arsenic trioxide is a chemotherapeutic agent of idiopathic function used to treat leukemia that is unresponsive to first line agents. It is suspected that arsenic trisulfide induces cancer cells to undergo apoptosis. In general, arsenic is known to be a naturally toxic substance capable of eliciting a variety of dangerous adverse effects. The enzyme thioredo...
For induction of remission and consolidation in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), and whose APL is characterized by the presence of the t(15;17) translocation or PML/RAR-alpha gene expression
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States
UPMC Cancer Centers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States
Hollings Cancer Center at Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States
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