It is an excellent treatment for acute promyelocytic leukemia, and has dramatically improved the cure rate and survival rate for patients with this disease. It also appears to prevent recurrence of head and neck cancer in those patients that have been treated with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy,

Gary Lewis

Cure Survival Treatment

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Over 90 percent of patients with APL are cured because of overall treatment of chemotherapy and retinoic acid, ... If you're cured, you're cured, but if it would happen to relapse, another arsenic derivative can be used as treatment to cure the disease the second time around.

Given the treatment she received, she had no chance of survival.

— George Griffin

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Every treatment is a lie. If you care you cure.

— Apurva Gaglani

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I went into remission after I had my first treatment in 2001, and everything was fine.

— Elidore Lewis

When I take a new patient and they fail treatment, it's easy to feel more optimistic, because I can see we have tools in toolbox that appear to work.