Intensive chemotherapy can dramatically boost survival of older teenage leukaemia patients
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 13:40
in Health & Medicine
More effective risk-adjusted chemotherapy and sophisticated patient monitoring helped push cure rates to nearly 88 percent for older adolescents enrolled in a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) treatment protocol and closed the survival gap between older and younger patients battling the most common childhood cancer...