The treatment of acute childhood leukemia: Predictions for the future rased on extrapolations from the past
- 1 March 1975
- Vol. 35 (S3), 1000-1006
- https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-0142(197503)35:3+<1000::aid-cncr2820350723>3.0.co;2-r
Abstract
Further progress in the treatment of acute leukemia involves a careful assessment of host and disease factors in each child and the selection of a therapeutic regimen which interacts with these factors to provide the maximum chance for survival. For some children, this therapy can be carried out in the community by expertly trained hematologist-oncologists; for others, the best treatment will involve clinical research at a center. Such a general approach has the best chance of fulfilling the optimistic survival projections made by the President's Cancer Panel in 1973 for acute lymphocytic leukemia.Keywords
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