TY - JOUR A1 - Schlenk, Richard Friedrich A1 - Lübbert, Michael A1 - Benner, Axel A1 - Lamparter, Alexander A1 - Krauter, Jürgen A1 - Herr, Wolfgang A1 - Martin, Hans A1 - Salih, Helmut Rainer A1 - Kündgen, Andrea A1 - Horst, Heinz August A1 - Brossart, Peter A1 - Götze, Katharina A1 - Nachbaur, David A1 - Wattad, Mohammed A1 - Köhne, Claus-Henning A1 - Fiedler, Walter A1 - Bentz, Martin A1 - Wulf, Gerald A1 - Held, Gerhard A1 - Hertenstein, Bernd A1 - Salwender, Hans A1 - Gaidzik, Verena I. A1 - Schlegelberger, Brigitte A1 - Weber, Daniela A1 - Döhner, Konstanze A1 - Ganser, Arnold A1 - Döhner, Hartmut T1 - All-trans retinoic acid as adjunct to intensive treatment in younger adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia : results of the randomized AMLSG 07-04 study T2 - Annals of hematology N2 - The aim of this clinical trial was to evaluate the impact of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) in combination with chemotherapy and to assess the NPM1 status as biomarker for ATRA therapy in younger adult patients (18-60 years) with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Patients were randomized for intensive chemotherapy with or without open-label ATRA (45 mg/m2, days 6-8; 15 mg/m2, days 9-21). Two cycles of induction therapy were followed by risk-adapted consolidation with high-dose cytarabine or allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Due to the open label character of the study, analysis was performed on an intention-to-treat (ITT) and a per-protocol (PP) basis. One thousand one hundred patients were randomized (556, STANDARD; 544, ATRA) with 38 patients treated vice versa. Median follow-up for survival was 5.2 years. ITT analyses revealed no difference between ATRA and STANDARD for the total cohort and for the subset of NPM1-mutated AML with respect to event-free (EFS; p = 0.93, p = 0.17) and overall survival (OS; p = 0.24 and p = 0.32, respectively). Pre-specified PP analyses revealed better EFS in NPM1-mutated AML (p = 0.05) and better OS in the total cohort (p = 0.03). Explorative subgroup analyses on an ITT basis revealed better OS (p = 0.05) in ATRA for genetic low-risk patients according to ELN recommendations. The clinical trial is registered at clinicaltrialsregister.eu (EudraCT Number: 2004-004321-95). KW - Acute myeloid leukemia KW - All-trans retinoic acid KW - Nucleophosmin-1 Y1 - 2016 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/42740 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-427401 UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5093206 SN - 1432-0584 SN - 0939-5555 N1 - This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons At tribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Electronic supplementary material: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00277-016-2810-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. VL - 95 IS - 12 SP - 1931 EP - 1942 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ER -