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Management of Ontario children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute protocols.

Abstract

There is ample evidence of the value of intensive therapeutic strategies in the management of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the commonest form of malignant disease in children. Such a program, devised at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Boston, and incorporating high-dose L-asparaginase, was adopted in 1984 by the Children's Hospital at Chedoke-McMaster, Hamilton, Ont., and the Children's Hospital of Western Ontario, London. We …

Authors

Desai SJ; Barr RD; Andrew M; deVeber LL; Pai MK

Journal

Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 141, No. 7, pp. 693–697

Publication Date

October 1, 1989

ISSN

0820-3946