Acute promyelocytic leukemia developing after radiotherapy for prostate cancer in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia

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Molero, T [1 ]
Lemes, A [1 ]
de la Iglesia, S [1 ]
Casares, MTG [1 ]
Perera, MD [1 ]
Jiménez, S [1 ]
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[1] Hosp Univ Gran Canaria Dr Negrin, Dept Haematol & Haemotherapy, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 35020, Spain
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10.1016/S0165-4608(01)00503-9
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Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is rarely associated with secondary acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) usually due to chemotherapy or radiotherapy. No cases of concomitant CLL and acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) have been found in the literature. Nevertheless, up to 12% of therapy-related AML cases are classified as APL. Of these latter, most are related to topoisomerasc treatment, with a few acute cases occurring after radiotherapy. We report here a patient with an untreated CLL who developed APL 2 years after radiotherapy for prostate carcinoma. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
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