Incidence and predictors of treatment-related mortality in paediatric acute leukaemia in El Salvador

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1026-1031

  Gupta, S ^a   Bonilla, M ^b   Fuentes, S L ^b   Caniza, M ^c   Howard, S C ^c   Barr, R ^d   Greenberg, M L ^a   Ribeiro, R ^c   Sung, L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b Benjamin Bloom National Children's Hospital   (El Salvador)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia; Acute myeloid leukaemia; Developing countries; Treatment related death

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EL SALVADOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PEDIATRICS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EL SALVADOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 63949087298     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604895     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Advani S, Pai S, Adde M, Kurkure PK, Nair CN, Sirohi B, Banavali SD, Hawaldar R, Kolhatkar BB, Vats T, Magrath I (1999) Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in India: an analysis of prognostic factors using a single treatment regimen. Ann Oncol 10: 167- 176
2. Ayoub L, Fu L, Pena A, Sierra JM, Dominguez PC, Pui CH, Quintana Y, Rodriguez A, Barr RD, Ribeiro RC, Metzger ML, Wilimas JA, Howard SC (2007) Implementation of a data management program in a pediatric cancer unit in a low income country. Pediatr Blood Cancer 49: 23-27
3. Aziz Z, Zahid M, Mahmood R, Maqbool S (1997) Modified BFM protocol for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A retrospective analysis. Med Pediatr Onc 28: 48-53
4. Christensen MS, Heyman M, Mottonen M, Zeller B, Jonmundsson G, Hasle H, Nordic Society of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology (NOPHO) (2005) Treatment-related death in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in the Nordic countries: 1992-2001. Br J Haematol 131: 50-58
5. Creutzig U, Ritter J, Zimmermann M, Hermann J, Gadner H, Blutters Sawatzki D, Niemeyer CM, Schwabe D, Selle B, Boos J, Kuhl J, Feldges A, AML-BFM Study Group (2001) Idarubicin improves blast cell clearance during induction therapy in children with AML: results of study AML-BFM 93. Leukemia 15: 348-354
6. Creutzig U, Zimmermann M, Lehrnbecher T, Graf N, Hermann J, Niemeyer CM, Reiter A, Ritter J, Dworzak M, Stary J, Reinhardt D (2006) Less toxicity by optimizing chemotherapy, but not by addition of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in children and adolescents with acute myeloid leukemia: results of AML BFM 98. J Clin Oncol 24: 4499-4506
7. Creutzig U, Zimmermann M, Reinhardt D, Dworzak M, Stary J, Lehrnbecher T (2004) Early deaths and treatment-related mortality in children undergoing therapy for acute myeloid leukemia: analysis of the multicenter clinical trials AML-BFM 93 and AML-BFM 98. J Clin Oncol 22: 4384-4393
8. Dluzniewska A, Balwierz W, Armata J, Balcerska A, Chybicka A, Kowalczyk J, Matysiak M, Ochocka M, Radwanska U, Rokicka-Milewska R, Sonta- Jakimczyk D, Wachowiak J, Wysocki M (2005) Twenty years of Polish experience with three consecutive protocols for treatment of childhood acute myelogenous leukemia. Leukemia 19: 2117-2124
9. Howard SC, Pedrosa M, Lins M, Pedrosa A, Pui CH, Ribeiro RC, Pedrosa F (2004) Establishment of a pediatric oncology program and outcomes of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in a resource-poor area. JAMA 291: 2471-2475
10. Howard SC, Wilimas JA (2005) Delays in diagnosis and treatment of childhood cancer: where in the world are they important? Pediatr Blood Cancer 44: 303- 304
11. Laosombat V, Wongchanchailert M, Sattayasevana B, Wiriyasateinkul A, Watana-Arepornchai S (2002) The treatment of children with acue lymphoblastic leukemia in Thailand. Med Pediatr Onc 38: 266-268
12. Li CK, Chik KW, Chan GC, Yuen HL, Lee AC, Li CK, Shing MM, Hay SY, Luk CW, Ling SC, Cheung AY, Hong Kong Paediatric Haematology and Oncology Study Group (2003) Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Hong Kong children: HKALL 93 Study. Hematol Oncol 21: 1-9
13. Lie SO, Abrahamsson J, Clausen N, Forestier E, Hasle H, Hovi L, Jonmundsson G, Mellander L, Guftasson G (2003) Treatment stratification based on initial in vivo response in acute myeloid leukaemia in children without Down syndrome. Results of NOPHO-AML trials. Br J Haematol 122: 217- 225
14. Metzger ML, Howard SC, Fu LC, Pena A, Stefan R, Hancock ML, Zhang Z, Pui CH, Wilimas JA, Ribeiro RC (2003) Outcome of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in resource-poor countries. Lancet 362: 706
15. Ogden CL, Kuczmarski RJ, Flegal KM, Mei Z, Guo S, Wei R, Grummer- Strawn LM, Curtin LR, Roche AF, Johnson CL (2002) Centers for disease control and prevention 2000 growth charts for the United States: improvements to the 1977 national center for health statistics version. Pediatrics 109: 45-60
16. Pui CH, Evans WE (2006) Treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. N Engl J Med 354: 166- 178
17. Pui CH, Relling MV, Sandlund JT, Downing JR, Campana D, Evans WE (2004a) Rationale and design of Total Therapy Study XV for newly diagnosed childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Ann Hematol 83: S124-S126
18. Pui CH, Sandlund JT, Pei D, Campana D, Rivera GK, Ribeiro RC, Rubnitz JE, Razzouk BI, Howard SC, Hudson MM, Cheng C, Kun LE, Raimondi SC, Behm FG, Downing JR, Relling MV, Evans WE (2004b) Improved outcome for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: results of Total Therapy Study XIIIB at St Jude Children's Research Hospital. Blood 104: 2690- 2696
19. Ravindranath Y, Chang M, Steuber CP, Becton D, Dahl G, Civin C, Camitta B, Carroll A, Raimondi SC, Weinstein HJ, Pediatric Oncology Group (2005) Pediatric Oncology Group (POG) studies of acute myeloid leukemia (AML): a review of four consecutive childhood AML trials conducted between 1981 and 2000. Leukemia 19: 2101- 2116
20. Riley LC, Hann IM, Wheatley K, Stevens RF (1999) Treatment-related deaths during induction and first remission of acute myeloid leukemia in children treated on the Tenth medical Research Council Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Trial (MRC AML10). Br J Haematol 106: 436-444
21. Rubnitz JE, Lensing S, Zhou Y, Sandlund JT, Razzouk BI, Ribeiro RC, Pui CH (2004) Death during induction therapy and first remission of acute leukemia in childhood: the St. Jude experience. Cancer 101: 1677- 1684
22. Sala A, Pencharz P, Barr RD (2004) Children, cancer, and nutrition - a dynamic triangle in review. Cancer 100: 677- 687
23. Sala A, Rossi E, Antillon F (2008) Nutritional status at diagnosis in children and adolescents with cancer in the AHOPCA (Asociacion de Hemato-Oncologia Pedatrica de Centro America) Countries. Preliminary results from Guatemala. Pediatr Blood Cancer 50: 499-501
24. Slats AM, Egeler RM, van der Does-van den Berg A, Korbijn C, Hahlen K, Kamps WA, Veerman AJ, Zwaan CM (2005) Causes of death - other than progressive leukemia - in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and myeloid leukemia (AML): the Dutch Childhood Oncology Group experience. Leukemia 19: 537-544
25. Stevens RF, Hann IM, Wheatley K, Gray RG (1998) Marked improvements in outcome with chemotherapy alone in paediatric acute myeloid leukaemia: results of the United Kingdom Medical Research Council's 10th AML trial. Br J Haematol 101: 130-140
26. Sung L, Lange BJ, Gerbing RB, Alonzo TA, Feusner J (2007) Microbiologically documented infections and infection-related mortality in children with acute myeloid leukemia. Blood 110: 3532-3539
27. Wheeler K, Chessells JM, Bailey CC, Richards SM (1996) Treatment related deaths during induction and in first remission in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: MRC UKALL X. Arch Dis Child 74: 101-107