Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Bone Marrow Transplantation in Treating Children With Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2005-12-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing
so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation may
allow doctors to give higher doses of chemotherapy and kill more cancer cells. It is not yet
known whether chemotherapy is more effective with or without bone marrow transplantation for
acute myeloid leukemia.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of chemotherapy with or
without bone marrow transplantation in treating children who have acute myeloid leukemia.