Duration of survival of children with acute leukaemia. Report to the Medical Research Council from the Committee on Leukaemia and the Working Party on Leukaemia in Childhood.
The survival times of children with acute leukaemia diagnosed in the years 1963-7 in England and Wales have been studied. The children known to have been treated by physicians specializing in the treatment of leukaemia in childhood have survived considerably longer than the others.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007938:Leukemia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000453:epidemiology; D007951:Leukemia, Myeloid / Q000453:epidemiology; D011379:Prognosis; D014852:Wales