Article
Genotoxicity of therapeutic intervention in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia.
Cancer research - 1 Jul 2004
Rice Sederick C, Vacek Pamela, Homans Alan H, Messier Terri, Rivers Jami, Kendall Heather, Finette Barry A
Abstract excerpt
The survival rates of children treated for cancer have dramatically increased after the development of standardized multiple-modality treatment protocols. As a result, there is a rapidly growing population of pediatric cancer survivors in which the long-term genotoxic effects of chemotherapeutic intervention is unknown. To study the genotoxic effects of antineoplastic treatment in children, we performed a...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Antineoplastic Agents
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Female
- Genes, Reporter
- Humans
- Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase
- Infant
- Longitudinal Studies
- Male
- Mutation
- Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
- Regression Analysis
- Risk Factors
