An analysis of prognostic factors and the five-year survival rate in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Karimi, Mehran ^a   Yarmohammadi, Hooman ^b   Sabri, Mohammad R ^c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Fars Prov Emergency Medical Center ^*  (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Prognostic factors; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ARABINOSIDE; ASPARAGINASE; CYTOSINE; ETOPOSIDE; HYDROCORTISONE; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM METASTASIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036963594     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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