Improved results in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with the ALL-BFM 90 protocol in the Czech Republic

BACKGROUND: Prognosis of children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL)--the most common cancer in childhood, has improved remarkably over the last 40 years. The authors report the treatment outcome in children with ALL cured according to ALL-BFM 90 Study protocol in the Czech Republic during the first half of nineties.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Children aged 0-18 years were included into the study in 10 centers between 1990 to 1996. Patients were classified into standard-risk (SR), medium-risk (MR) and high-risk (HR) group according to initial leukaemic burden, early treatment response, and genotype of leukaemia. Duration of the chemotherapy was two years. Treatment results were evaluated in 352 children. With a median follow-up of 7.3 years, event-free-survival (EFS) was 71.3% and overall survival 76.4%. EFS was 80.3%, 74% and 28.2% in SR, MR and HR group, respectively. Relapse was diagnosed in 17.8% of the patients.

CONCLUSIONS: The treatment outcome of children with ALL improved significantly (p = 0.0045) compared to the previous study ALL-BFM 83 (EFS 62%). These results are comparable to those achieved by leading leukaemia study groups in the world.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2003

Erschienen:

2003

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:142

Enthalten in:

Casopis lekaru ceskych - 142(2003), 7 vom: 30., Seite 404-9

Sprache:

Tschechisch

Weiterer Titel:

Zlepsení výsledků lécby dĕtí s akutní lymfoblastickou leukémií podle protokolu ALL-BFM 90 v Ceské republice

Beteiligte Personen:

Starý, J [VerfasserIn]
Gajdos, P [VerfasserIn]
Blazek, B [VerfasserIn]
Ptoszková, H [VerfasserIn]
Mihál, V [VerfasserIn]
Pospísilová, D [VerfasserIn]
Hrstková, H [VerfasserIn]
Dembická, D [VerfasserIn]
Kopecná, L [VerfasserIn]
Slavík, Z [VerfasserIn]
Hak, J [VerfasserIn]
Procházková, D [VerfasserIn]
Zahálka, F [VerfasserIn]
Cerná, Z [VerfasserIn]
Jabali, Y [VerfasserIn]
Timr, P [VerfasserIn]
Vávra, V [VerfasserIn]
Mydlil, J [VerfasserIn]
Hrusák, O [VerfasserIn]
Trka, J [VerfasserIn]

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Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 27.10.2003

Date Revised 16.11.2017

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM142568236