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Acute leukemia in Malaysian children

Sinniah D 1 , White JC 2 , Omar A 3 , Chua CP 3

Affiliations 

  • 1 Associate Professor, Departments of Paediatrics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Associate Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Malaya. Present address: Department of Haematology, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, London, EClA 7BE
  • 3 Medical Officer, Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Cancer, 1978 Oct;42(4):1970-5.
PMID: 280417 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142%28197810%2942%3A4<1970%3A%3AAID-

Abstract

A review of acute childhood leukemia in the University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur reveals no significant differences in either the epidemiological or clinical features between Malaysian and Caucasian children. BCG does not appear to have conferred any protection against the occurrence of leukemia. With the introduction of total therapy 4 of 10 patients with good prognostic features and 3 of 15 patients with poor prognostic features have survived 3 years. Prognosis appears to correlate with adopted clinical criteria.

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