Proportion of long-term event-free survivors and lifetime of adult patients not cured after a standard acute lymphoblastic leukemia therapeutic program: Adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia-94 trial

Cancer

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2058-2067

  Le, Quoc Hung ^a,b,c   Thomas, Xavier ^a   Ecochard, René ^b,c   Iwaz, Jean ^b,c   Lhéritier, Véronique ^a   Michallet, Mauricette ^a   Fiere, Denis ^a  

^a EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Cure rate; Prognostic factors; Survival

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DAUNORUBICIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IDARUBICIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PREDNISONE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENES, ABL; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L2; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; ODDS RATIO; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 34248349859     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22632     Document Type: Article

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