The Effect of Intensive Intrathecal Chemotherapy on Prognosis of Childhood Lymphoblastic Leukemia with Central Nervous System Involvement: A 20-Year Experience

The Effect of Intensive Intrathecal Chemotherapy on Prognosis of Childhood Lymphoblastic Leukemia with Central Nervous System Involvement: A 20-Year Experience

Background: Primary central nervous system involvement and central nervous system relapse are poor prognostic events in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Due to severe skeletal and endocrine complications of craniospinal radiotherapy, only cranial radiotherapy is advisable. However only 15% of the ca...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mahdi Shahriari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences 2016-07-01
Series:Middle East Journal of Cancer
Subjects:
Childhood leukemia
CNS involvement
CNS relapse
CNS prophylaxis
prognosis
Online Access:http://mejc.sums.ac.ir/index.php/mejc/article/view/378/261

Internet

http://mejc.sums.ac.ir/index.php/mejc/article/view/378/261

Similar Items