Therapeutic results: report of the Hungarian children's leukaemia study group.
In Hungary, the morbidity of leukaemia in children aged 0 to 15 years is 3.6/100,000. The rate of complete remission was 88.5% in ALL and 57.1% in AML. The most important factors limiting survival were infections acquired during induction therapy in 91.3% and during Co irradiation in 66.3% of the patients.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007239:Infections / Q000150:complications; D007938:Leukemia / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality*; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000188:drug therapy; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous