Successful Pregnancy during Chemotherapy for Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

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To the Editor: We wish to report the case of a woman who became pregnant while receiving systemic chemotherapy for acute promyelocytic leukemia and who gave birth to a normal infant during the 34th week of gestation.A 22-year-old woman was diagnosed as having acute promyelocytic leukemia in November 1979. Supportive therapy with low-dose heparin (1 or 2 mg per kilogram of body weight per day) and platelet concentrates and chemotherapy with daunorubicin (2 mg per kilogram per day for five days) were simultaneously started. Complete remission was achieved, and maintenance chemotherapy was begun in January 1980 with oral mercaptopurine . . .

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