Progress in Differentiation Induction as a Treatment for Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia and Beyond

The Joint International Conference on Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia and Differentiation Therapy held from October 4–7, 2001 in Rome, Italy was part of a series of biannual conferences, which had its beginnings in Sardinia in 1985, with the goal of establishing differentiation induction and programmed cell death as cancer cell-selective therapies. As in the past, the organizers of this meeting joined basic and clinical investigators in workshops to establish collaboration and information exchange. Because only a portion of the conference is summarized, additional information can be obtained from the abstracts published in Journal of Biological Regulators and Homeostatic Agents , Volume 15, 2001. The next International Conference on Differentiation Therapy will be held in Shanghai from October 24–27, 2003.