Brazil reaches therapeutic outcomes in developed countries leukemia

Study organized by international consortium between developing and developed countries, showed that through networking and education you can get medical and similar promising results in the treatment and quality of care in cases of onco-hematology, especially acute promyelocytic leukemia ( LPA), disease-targeted research due to their severity, with a high early mortality but good prognosis if detected and treated early.

Published in the journal Blood, the scientific journal of global benchmark in the art of the American Society of Hematology (ASH, its acronym in English), the article included the participation of Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, and the United States and Europe and highlights Brazil's performance in the area.

Cooperation showed Brazil's ability to conduct clinical studies of high complexity, based on the reality of the country, obtaining results similar to those described in developed countries. Moreover, it exposes the challenges, weaknesses and difficulties of promoting science in Brazil, in terms of funding and the reality of their public function, among other items, while puts a differentiated level compared to other countries development, says the coordinator of the International Consortium of LPA in Brazil, researcher at the Center for Cellular Therapy Blood Center of Ribeirão Preto (CTC-HRP) and Eduardo Rego hematologist.

Rego, who is also a board member of the Association of Hematology, Hematology and Cell Therapy (ABHH), says that through the initiative of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), was born the first study model for developing countries in the form of consortium of the history of hematology. This model and the way we conduct the study are unpublished. We show that the Internet is also a tool that contributes to advances in medicine.

Seven other Brazilian institutions participating Reference Consortium: Unicamp, Faculty of Medicine, Santa Casa de São Paulo, Hemope Foundation (Pernambuco); Federal Universities of São Paulo, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul and Minas Gerais. Rounding out the list Mexico, Chile and Uruguay, and institutions of the United States and Europe.

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