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SUBMITTER: Wood WA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4019683 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation 20140307 6
Adolescents and young adults (AYAs, ages 15 to 40 years) with cancer have not experienced survival improvements to the same extent as younger and older patients. We compared changes in survival after myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) among children (n = 981), AYAs (n = 1218), and older adults (n = 469) who underwent transplantation over 3 time periods: 1990 to 1995, 1996 to 2001, and 2002 to 2007. Five-year survival varied in ...[more]