SURVIVAL IN 86 PATIENTS, AGED 15-60, WITH PRIMARY ACUTE MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA, TREATED WITH A COMMON PROGRAM IN THE NORWEGIAN HEALTH REGION-I, REGION-III, REGION-IV AND REGION-V IN THE PERIOD 1990-1995

Eighty-six patients between 15 and 60 yr with primary acute myelogenou s Leukemia in health regions I, III, IV and V in Norway were treated a ccording to a common protocol from 21 January 1990 until 1 September 1 995 (until 1 January 1993 for health region IV). Seventy-one percent o f the patients reached complete remission (CR) and went on to receive consolidation treatment, In addition to chemotherapy, 18 patients unde r the age of 52, i.e. 28% of all patients in this age group, received allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. A follow-up analysis was perfo rmed by 1 September 1996. The median overall survival was 15 months, e stimated 3-yr survival 30% and estimated survival at 5 yr was 26%. The median duration of Ist CR was 19 months, and the leukemia-free surviv al at 3 yr was 29%. Al follow-up 26/86 patients were alive, 18 in Ist CR (4 after BMT) and 8 in 2nd CR (5 after BMT in 2nd, 1 after BMT in e arly Ist relapse). These results are comparable to many previously pub lished studies, but may be inferior to the results obtained with more intensive consolidation treatment, including high dose Ara C.