Long-term decline in intelligence among adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with cranial radiation

Blood

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 550-553

  Krull, Kevin R ^a   Zhang, Nan ^a   Santucci, Aimee ^a   Srivastava, Deo Kumar ^a   Krasin, Matthew J ^a   Kun, Larry E ^a   Pui, Ching Hon ^a   Robison, Leslie L ^a   Hudson, Melissa M ^a   Armstrong, Gregory T ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVIVOR; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRANIAL RADIATION THERAPY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECALL; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SKULL IRRADIATION; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; TIME;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION DISORDERS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84886884561     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2013-03-487744     Document Type: Article

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