Table 3.

Response evaluation

	LDC*	SDC	Total	P †
First induction	83	100	183	.811
CR	58 (69.9)	67 (67.0)	125 (68.3)
PR	12 (14.5)	18 (18.0)	30 (16.4)
NR	13 (15.6)	15 (15.0)	28 (15.3)
Second induction	80	96	176	.436
CR	71 (88.8)	83 (86.4)	154 (87.5)
PR	4 (5.0)	6 (6.3)	10 (5.7)
NR	2 (2.5)	6 (6.3)	8 (4.5)
Unavailable‡	3 (3.7)	1 (1.0)	4 (2.3)
Treatment-related deaths	1§	2	3	1.000
Induction I	0	0	0
Induction II	1 (1.2)	2 (2.0)	3 (1.6)
Abandonment	7	7	14
After induction I	3 (3.6)	4 (4.0)	7 (3.8)	.912
After induction II	4 (4.8)	3 (3.0)	7 (3.8)

All data are presented as n (%).

^*Twenty-two patients received 1 course of LDC for induction I and SDC for induction II.

^†Monte Carlo analysis was used for categorical variables with N×3 charts.

^‡Two patients abandoned treatment and 1 patient in the LDC/SDC group died of treatment-related toxicity before evaluation of remission induction II; 1 patient died of treatment-related toxicity in the SDC group before evaluation of remission induction II.

^§Patient received LDC for induction I and SDC for induction II.