Considering the clear therapeutic advantage associated with ATRA+ATO combination therapy and the more favorable and overall manageable safety profile compared to ATRA+chemotherapy, the benefits of the combination in the first-line indication do appear to overweigh the risks.
However, no information regarding the actual adverse event (AE) incidence and the long-term toxicity of ATRA+ATO is available at present and therefore, as a postmarketing commitment, TEVA (the Company holding the Marketing Authorisation of Trisenox® (Arsenic trioxide)) is setting up a long-term safety cohort study of Trisenox in newly diagnosed low- to intermediate-risk APL patients retrospectively analyzing data from APL disease registries all around Europe.
As a result, this observational study is part of the retrospective PASS Study (A Post-Authorisation Long-Term Retrospective Safety Cohort Study of Arsenic Trioxide in First Line Low-to Intermediate-Risk Acute Promyelocytic Leukaemia Patients) that will use data from multinational APL disease registries in Europe. The present study will focus on Italian patients.
