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Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment (PDQ®) - Changes to this Summary (02/26/2008)

The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

TREATMENT OPTION OVERVIEW

Added Chauvenet et al. as reference 6.

UNTREATED CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA

Added Chauvenet et al. as reference 6.

Added text to state that chronic and late toxicities of CNS-directed therapy for childhood ALL include meningiomas (cited Goshen et al. as reference 41).

CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA IN REMISSION

Added Chauvenet et al. as reference 11.

Added Jacobs et al. as reference 33.

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Last Updated: February 26, 2008

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