title: [Study of clinical outcome and analysis of prognosis related factor in children with acute myeloid leukemia].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyse the clinical outcome and the prognostic factor of childhood acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
  
  
  METHODS
  Disease-free survival (DFS), event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS) rates were estimated by Kaplan-Meier method and prognostic factors were evaluated by Cox regression with SPSS in 141 childhood AML in our hospital from August 1995 to July 2004. The patients were divided into 2 groups: acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) as group A and AML other than APL as group B.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 90 group B patients, 54.4% (49/90) achieved complete remission (CR) after one course chemotherapy , with a total CR rate of 76.7%. The cumulative 5 year DFS and OS rate for group B patients were (28.4 +/- 9.0)% and (35.5 +/- 6.3)%, the 51 group A patients were (94.3 +/- 4.0)% and (81.4 +/- 5.7)%, and for total 141 AML patients were (56.9 +/- 6.3)% and (53.3 +/- 4.8)% respectively. Multivariate analysis demonstrated that higher bone marrow blast cell percentage at diagnosis, CR after more than one course of chemotherapy and less than six courses of consolidation chemotherapy were risk prognostic factors in childhood AML other than APL (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The prognosis of childhood APL is better, while of childhood t(8;21) AML is no better than other FAB subtypes.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Hematology and Blood Diseases Hospital, CAMS & PUMC, Tianjin 300020, China.
authors.forename: Yao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiao-Juan
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Shu-Chun
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yu-Mei
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xiao-Fan
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells / Q000166:cytology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome