Lack of clarity in the definition of treatment-related mortality: Pediatric acute leukemia and adult acute promyelocytic leukemia as examples

Blood

Volumn 118, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 5080-5083

  Ethier, Marie Chantal ^a   Blanco, Esther ^a,b   Lehrnbecher, Thomas ^c   Sung, Lillian ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACCIDENT; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT DISEASE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; SHORT SURVEY; SUICIDE;

EID: 81055148124     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2011-07-363333     Document Type: Short Survey

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