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Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
New acute lymphoblastic leukemia study findings have been reported from Oregon Health & Science University
April 29th, 2008
" The event-free survival (EFS) of children with standard-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia (SR-ALL) is now more than 80%. However, prognosis after relapse continues to be poor," scientists writing in the Journal of Clinical Oncology report. "We examined postrelapse outcomes of children initially treated on the Children's Cancer Group CCG-1952 study. Patients and Methods We evaluated outcomes after bone marrow (BM) relapse and isolated extramedullary (EM) relapse for 347 patients with SR-ALL (WBC < 50,000/mu L; age, 1 to 9 years). The prognostic significance of several factors for EFS after relapse (EFS2) was assessed by Cox regression analysis. Stem-cell...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-04-29)
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