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- Title
Race and Outcome in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
- Authors
Carroll, William L.
- Abstract
Presents an editorial on conflicting research that may show black and Hispanic and American Indian children have a poorer outcome in treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia than do white and Asian children. Issues that effect outcome of treatment beside race; Two studies outlined that contradict each other; Difference in how the surveys were conducted; Recent formation of the Children's Oncology Group in position to perform better studies to see if biological factors can account for cure or treatment failure.
- Subjects
LYMPHOBLASTIC leukemia in children; LYMPHOCYTIC leukemia; AFRICAN American children; NATIVE American children; HISPANIC American children; HEALTH outcome assessment; MEDICAL research; HEALTH
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2003, Vol 290, Issue 15, p2061
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1001/jama.290.15.2061