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Brief Title: Therapeutic Effect and Safety Study of Decitabine in Elderly Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients
Official Title: The Clinical Research About the Therapeutic Effect and Safety of 10 Days Regimen With Single-agent of Decitabine for Elderly AML Patients
Study ID: NCT01633099
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to confirm the safety and the therapeutic effect of Decitabine in the treatment of elderly Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) patients.
Detailed Description: The outcome of the elderly AML patients is very poor. No obvious progress was achieved in this field. Decitabine is a kind of specific DNA methylation shift enzyme inhibitor. It can reverse the DNA methylation and induce the differentiation and apoptosis of the tumor cells. Recent studies about decitabine in the treatment for elderly AML patients had achieved inspiring results and indicated that low dose decitabine maybe a good choice for elderly AML patients. So in this research the investigators plan to evaluate the safety and the therapeutic effect of decitabine in the treatment of elderly AML patients.
Minimum Age: 60 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
Name: Jianxiang Wang, MD
Affiliation: Institute of Hematology, Hospital of Blood Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR