Treatment of Langerhans cell histiocytosis with a modified risk‐adapted protocol—experience from a tertiary cancer institute in India

Involvement of risk‐organs (RO+) in Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) and inadequate early response identifies patients at high risk for relapse and mortality requiring intensive salvage therapy including stem cell transplant, adding cost and toxicity. To mitigate this, we used a standard induction, augmented with metronomic etoposide, and prolonged maintenance—similarly augmented for RO+, and retrospectively analyzed its impact.

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