Childhood Leukemia: Outcomes influenced by race and ethnicity

This study can be found in Blood, 2002; 100: 1957-1964. The children's Cancer study group found that in standard risk pediatric lymphoblastic leukemia patients Whites, Hispanics and Asians had event free survival rates of 75% - 78%k versus 64% for blacks.

Further studies are underway to find out why these significant differences were found.

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March 20, 2003