Therapy-related acute lymphoblastic leukemia is more frequent than previously recognized and has a poor prognosis

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3962-3967

  Abdulwahab, Amal ^a   Sykes, Jenna ^a   Kamel Reid, Suzanne ^b   Chang, Hong ^b   Brandwein, Joseph M ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

acute lymphoblastic leukemia; bone marrow transplantation; chemotherapy; chemotherapy complications; leukemia; radiotherapy complications

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; BCR ABL PROTEIN; BLEOMYCIN; BUSULFAN; CARBOPLATIN; CD15 ANTIGEN; CISPLATIN; COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DACARBAZINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; GYRASE INHIBITOR; IFOSFAMIDE; IMATINIB; MITOXANTRONE; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG EXPOSURE; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; LATENT PERIOD; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; LYMPHOMA; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA; OVARY CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; THYMOMA; THYROID CANCER; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PROGNOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864662567     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26735     Document Type: Article

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