Results of therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia in black and white children

CH Pui, JT Sandlund, D Pei, GK Rivera, SC Howard… - Jama, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
ContextTreatment results for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) clearly have improved over
the past decade, but black children have not fared as well as white children in large national
trials. ObjectiveTo compare the clinical outcomes of therapy for black and white children with
ALL treated at a single institution. Design, Setting, and PatientsA retrospective analysis of
412 children and adolescents (68 black, 338 white, and 6 other race) with newly diagnosed
ALL who were treated consecutively at a pediatric cancer center in Memphis, Tenn. Patients …