- Patients in arms III and IV also receive oral 6-MP daily on weeks 5-13 and then beginning on week 24 and continuing until the end of consolidation; MTX IT on weeks 7, 10, 13, 16, 20, 21, and 30; oral DM twice daily on days 1-7 of weeks 8, 16-18, and 28; VCR IV on day 1 of weeks 8, 9, 16-18, 28, and 29; pegaspargase intramuscularly on week 16; daunorubicin IV on day 1 of weeks 16-18; cyclophosphamide IV on day 1 of week 20; cytarabine IV or subcutaneously on days 2-5 of weeks 20 and 21; and oral thioguanine daily on days 1-14 of weeks 20 and 21.