LYMPHOBLASTIC leukemiaSURVIVAL rateKAPLAN-Meier estimatorDISEASE remissionDISEASE relapseBackground: With advances in supportive and risk-stratified therapy, the 5-year survival rate of acute lymphoblastic leukemia has reached 85.5%. The ALL-2006 treatment protocol was modified and renamed...
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a type of blood cancer. Learn more about the causes, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment types, and prognosis for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- A change in diet can potentially help increase the cancer survival rate of obese children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, showed a new study by scientists of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on Thursday. The research team administered the chemother...
Prof. Dr. Rob Pieters says, "The five-year survival rate for children withacute lymphoblastic leukemiahas increased tremendously since the 1960s, from zero to 94%, but the last steps are the hardest. We are now one step closer to curing all children with ALL. We have also been able to ...
Of 100 patients surviving more than Summary four years after diagnosis of acute leukmia, 83 had lymphoblastic, 3 myeloblastic, and 3 monoblastic leukmia; in the remaining 11, the cytological type could not be determined. The annual death-rate of the patients with acute lymphoblastic leukmia (...
For patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) carrying the Philadelphia chromosome and whose disease relapsed after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT), the two-year overall survival rate has nearly doubled from the period between 2000 and 2004 to the period between 2015 and...
Acute lymphocytic leukemia(ALL, also known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia) is the most common type of leukemia in children, but it can also affect adults. In this type of leukemia, immature lymphoid cells grow rapidly in the blood. It affects almost 6,000 people per year in the U.S. ...
This study was aimed to explore the clinical features and prognosis outcome of childhood T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). The clinical data of 38 cases of newly diagnosed T-ALL from Jan 2005 to Aug 2010 were analyzed retrospectively, and 78 cases of B-ALL with intermediate and ...
Pro-B-cell to pre-B-cell development in B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia expressing the MLL/AF4 fusion protein The most common chromosomal abnormality of infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the t(4;11)(q21;q23) that gives rise to the MLL/AF4 fusion gene. Le... Bertrand,...
An intensive treatment program with curative intent was designed for adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Forty-eight consecutive patients were treated with this protocol and 39 (81%) obtained a complete remission. Although the complete remission rate was high for patients with both null-...