The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Classification of Pediatric Myeloid Malignancies

Added Meshinchi et al. as reference 52.

Added Chou et al. as reference 74.

Added Thiede et al. as reference 75.

Added text stating that immunohistochemical methods can be used to accurately identify patients with nucleophosmin mutations.

Added Falini et al. as reference 77.

Treatment Overview for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Added text stating that the Berlin-Frankfurt-Munster 98 study confirmed a lack of benefit for the use of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (cited Lehrnbecher et al. as reference 9).

Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Added Creutzig et al. as reference 13.

Postremission Therapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Added text stating that indications for autologous and allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation have been published (cited Oliansky et al. as reference 6).

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