Post-treatment intellectual functioning in children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) with chemotherapy-only: A prospective, sibling-controlled study

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 2765-2772

  Jansen, Nathalie C ^a,b   Kingma, Annette ^a   Schuitema, Arnout ^a   Bouma, Anke ^c   Huisman, Jaap ^d   Veerman, Anjo J ^e   Kamps, Willem A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Dutch Childhood Oncology Group DCOG   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia; Chemotherapy; Children; Cognition; Intelligence; Late effects; Prospective study

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ASPARAGINASE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DEXAMETHASONE; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SIBLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L1; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750041661     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2006.06.014     Document Type: Article

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