Ethnicity and cure rates of Texas children with acute lymphoid leukemia

Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 563-569

  Hord, Marilew H ^a   Smith, Terry L ^a   Culbert, Steven J ^a   Frankel, Lawrence S ^a,b   Pinkel, Donald P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

children; cure; ethnicity; leukeumia; lymphoid

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINASE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKULL IRRADIATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; SURVIVAL RATE; TEXAS;

EID: 0030027534     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960201)77:3<563::AID-CNCR20>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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