Jerzy Holowiecki¹, Sebastian Grosicki^1*, Slawomira Kyrcz-Krzemien^1*, Kazimierz Kuliczkowski^2*, Aleksander B. Skotnicki^3*, Andrzej Hellmann, MD, PhD^4*, Tadeusz Robak, MD, PhD⁵, Kazimierz Sulek^6*, Anna Dmoszynska⁷, Janusz Kloczko^8*, Wieslaw Wiktor Jedrzejczak^9*, Barbara Zdziarska^10*, Krzysztof Warzocha^11*, Krystyna Zawilska^12*, Marek Kielbinski^2*, Beata Piatkowska-Jakubas^3*, Agnieszka Wierzbowska^5*, Olga Haus^13*, Beata Stella-Holowiecka^1*, Malgorzata Krawczyk-Kulis^1*, Malgorzata Wach^7* and Anna Ejduk^11*

¹Dept. of Hematology and BMT, Silesian Medical University Hospital SPSKM, Katowice, Poland
²Dep.of Hematology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
³Collegium Medicum, Uniwersytetu Jagielonskiego, Krakow, Poland
⁴Department of Hematology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
⁵Department of Hematology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
⁶Dept. of Clinical Hematology, Military Medical Institute, Warsaw, Poland
⁷Hematooncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
⁸Dept. of Hematology, Bialystok Medical Academy, Bialystok, Poland
⁹Department of Hematology and Oncology, Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
¹⁰Dept. of Clinical Hematology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
¹¹Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Warsaw, Poland
¹²Dept. of Internal Medicine, Strus Hospital, Poznan, Poland
¹³Dept. of Clinical Genetics, Collegium Medicum of Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Roelof Willemze, MD, PhD¹, Stefan Suciu², Franco Mandelli^3*, Boris Labar, MD, PhD⁴, Jean-Pierre Marie^5*, Martin Mistrik, MD, PhD⁶, Vincenzo Liso^7*, Francesco Fabbiano^8*, Francesco Nobile^9*, Marco Sborgia^10*, Bruno Rotoli¹¹, Dominik L.D. Selleslag, MD¹², Francois Lefrere Sr., MD^13*, Antonio Peta^14*, Massimo F Martelli^15*, Giuseppe Leone¹⁶, Nicola Cantore^17*, Meral Beksac^18*, Zwi Berneman^19*, Xavier Thomas²⁰, Michele Mario Greco^21*, Dominique Bron²², Georges Fillet²³, Jose E. Guimaraes, MD, PhD²⁴, Petra Muus^25*, Paola Fazi^26*, Liliana Baila^27*, Marco Vignetti^28*, Sergio Amadori²⁹, Theo de Witte on behalfhe European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation^25* and Giovanna Meloni^3*

¹Dept. of Hematology, Leiden Univ. Med. Ctr., Leiden, Netherlands
²EORTC Leukemia Group, Brussels, Belgium
³Universita La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
⁴Dept. of Medicine, Div. of Hematology, University Hospital Center - Rebro, Zagreb, Croatia
⁵Hotel Dieu, Paris, France
⁶Dept. of Hematol. & Transfusiology, Univ. Hosp., Bratislava, Slovak Republic
⁷Hematology, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy
⁸Ospedale Cervello, Palermo, Italy
⁹Azienda Ospedaliera Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli, Reggio Calabria, Italy
¹⁰Ospedale di Pescara, Pescara, Italy
¹¹Dipartimento di Ematologia, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy
¹²Az Sint-Jan, Brugge, BEL
¹³Hematology, Necker Hospital, Paris, France
¹⁴Ospedale Regionale A. PUGLIESE, Catanzaro, Italy
¹⁵Hematology and Clinical Immunology, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
¹⁶Istituto di Ematologia, Rome, Italy
¹⁷Ospedale Civile AVELLINO, Rome, Italy
¹⁸IBNI SINA Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
¹⁹Universitair Ziekenhuis, Antwerpen, Belgium
²⁰Hopital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France
²¹Hematology, Ospedale Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
²²Dept. of Experimental Hem., Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium
²³ULg, Liege, Belgium
²⁴Hospital S. Joao, Porto, Portugal
²⁵UMC St Radboud, Nijmegen, Netherlands
²⁶Division of Hematology, Department of Cellular Biotechonologies and Hematology, “La Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy
²⁷EORTC Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
²⁸Dept of Biotechnologies and Hematology, “La Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy
²⁹Ematologia Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Shuichi Miyawaki¹, Shigeki Ohtake², Shin Fujisawa^2*, Hitoshi Kiyoi^2*, Katsuji Shinagawa^2*, Noriko Usui^2*, Kohichi Miyamura, MD^2*, Miki Nishimura, MD^2*, Yasushi Miyazaki^2*, Kazuhiro Nishii^2*, Tadashi Nagai^2*, Takahisa Yamane, MD^2*, Masafumi Taniwaki^2*, Masatomo Takahashi, MD^2*, Fumiharu Yagasaki^2*, Yukihiko Kimura^2*, Norio Asou^2*, Sumihisa Honda^2*, Kazunori Ohnishi^2*, Tomoki Naoe^2* and Ryuzo Ohno^2*

¹Leukemia Research Center, Saiseikai Maebashi Hospital, Maebashi, Japan
²Japan Adult Leukemia Study Group, Japan

Janet Franklin, MD, MPH^1*, Todd Alonzo, PhD², Craig Alan Hurwitz, MD^3*, Robert Gerbing^4*, Franklin Smith^5*, Robert J. Arceci, MD, PhD⁶, James Feusner, MD^7*, Prasad Mathew, MD⁸, Robert Iannone, MD⁹, Soheil Meshinchi, MD, PhD¹⁰, Robert Lavey, MD, MPH^11*, Joetta D Wallace, RN^12*, Kelly Anderson, RN^13*, Laura Winter, PharmD^14*, Kathleen Glick, BA^3*, Betty Hirsch, MD^15*, Susana C. Raimondi, PhD¹⁶ and Alan Gamis, MD¹⁷

¹Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
²Keck School of Med., Univ. of Southern California, Arcadia, CA
³The Maine Children's Cancer Program, Scarborough, ME
⁴Children's Oncology Group, Arcadia, CA
⁵Hematology/Oncology and Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
⁶Bunting-Blaustein Cancer Research Building, Sidney Kimmel CCC at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
⁷Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA
⁸Univ. of NM Health Science Ctr., Albuquerque, NM
⁹Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Narberth, PA
¹⁰Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Rsrch. Ctr., Seattle, WA
¹¹CRO, Brandon, FL
¹²Miller Children's Hospital, Long Beach, CA
¹³Oregon Health Science Center, Portland, OR
¹⁴Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA
¹⁵University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
¹⁶St. Jude Children's Rsch. Hosp., Memphis, TN
¹⁷Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO

Luis Madero^1*, Pau Montesinos, MD^2*, Pilar Bastida, MD^3*, Amparo Verdeguer, MD^4*, Javier De la Serna, MD^5*, Antonio Molines, MD^6*, Purificacion Garcia, MD^7*, Jose Luis Fuster, MD^8*, Maria jose Allegue, MD^9*, Rafael Rojas, MD^10* and Miguel A. Sanz, MD, PhD²

¹MD, Nino Jesus Children's Hospital, Madrid, Spain
²On behalf of the PETHEMA, HOVON, PALG, and GATLA cooperative groups, Valencia, Spain
³H. U. Vall dxHebron (infantil), Barcelona
⁴Hematology, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain
⁵Hospital 12 de Octubre, Spain, Spain
⁶Hospital Materno-Infantil de Las Palmas, Las Palmas, Spain
⁷Hospital La Paz (infantil), Madrid, Spain
⁸H. U. Virgen de la Arrixaca (infantil), Murcia, Spain
⁹Hospital Montecelo, Pontevedra, Spain
¹⁰Hospital Reina Sofía, Cordoba, Spain

Miguel A. Sanz, MD, PhD, Pau Montesinos^*, Aleksandra Holowiecka^*, Gustavo Milone^*, Chelo Rayon^*, Elena de Lisa^*, Javier de la Serna^*, Salut Brunet^*, Angel Leon^*, Isabel Krsnik^*, Concha Rivas^*, Jose M. Ribera^*, Jose Gonzalez^*, Joaquín Díaz-Mediavilla^*, Javier Bueno^*, Jose David Gonzalez^*, Juan Bergua^* and Marcos Gonzalez^*

PETHEMA cooperative group, Valencia, Spain

Sylvain Thepot^*, Claude Gardin^*, Sylvie Chevret^*, Stephane de Botton^*, Emmanuel Raffoux^*, Agnes Guerci^*, Xavier Thomas^*, Arnaud Pigneux^*, Norbert Vey^*, Thierry Lamy^*, Francoise Huguet^*, Anne Vekhoff^*, Sandrine Meyer^*, Chelo Rayon^*, Thomas Pabst^*, Patrice Chevalier^*, Frederic Maloisel^*, Eric Deconinck^*, Augustin Ferrant^*, Dominique Bron^*, Herve Dombret^*, Nathalie Fegueux^*, Javier de la Serna^*, jean-Yves Cahn^*, Norbert Ifrah^*, Miguel A Sanz^*, Pierre Fenaux^* and Lionel Ades

European APL group, Bobigny, France

Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh^1*, Kamran Alimoghaddam, MD¹, Seyed Hamidolah Ghaffari^1*, Shahrbano Rostami^1*, Mohamad Jahani^1*, Rohollah Hosseini^2*, Massoud Iravani^1*, Seyed Asadollah Mossavi^1*, Ali Khodabandeh^1*, Babak Bahar^1*, Eissa Baybordi^1*, Mehrangiz Tootonchi^1*, Ezat Eini^1*, Zahra Nasri Moghadam^1*, Fakhri Afshar^1* and Parvin Radsafa^1*

¹Dept. of Hem., Onc., & BMT, hematology, oncology and stem cell transplantation research center of Tehran university of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran
²Pharmacy Faculty, Tehran university of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran