New treatment strategies in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Haematology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 729-740

  Schrappe, Martin ^a   Beier, Rita ^a   Bürger, Britta ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Childhood ALL; Leukaemia; MRD; Prognostic factors; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINASE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DEXAMETHASONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; AGE; ALLERGIC REACTION; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOGENETICS; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IN VIVO STUDY; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; NEUROTOXICITY; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; THROMBOSIS; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0036954974     PISSN: 15216926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/beha.2002.0226     Document Type: Review

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