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SUBMITTER: Eissa HM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5533940 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eissa H M HM Zhou Y Y Panetta J C JC Browne E K EK Jeha S S Cheng C C Relling M V MV Campana D D Pui C-H CH Inaba H H
Blood cancer journal 20170217 2
The impact of body mass index (BMI) at diagnosis on treatment outcome in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is controversial. We studied 373 children with ALL enrolled on the Total XV study, which prospectively used minimal residual disease (MRD) for risk assignment. MRD on day 19 and at the end of remission induction (day 46), cumulative incidence of relapse/refractory disease (CIR), event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS) were evaluated using sets of four, three and t ...[more]