01.02.2013 | editorial
Treatment results for children and adolescents with acute myeloid leukemia in Middle and Eastern European countries
Erschienen in: memo - Magazine of European Medical Oncology | Ausgabe 1/2013
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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) corresponds to a heterogeneous group of hematologic neoplasms that originate from bone marrow precursors of the myeloid, monocyte, erythroid, and megakaryocytic cell lineages. While acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) remains the most common childhood malignancy, AML comprises only about 4.8 % of all pediatric cancers in Europe. However, although an orphan disease and despite of remarkable advances during the past decades in both the management and the understanding of the biology and molecular genetics of childhood AML, it still remains one of the most frequent causes of death in children and adolescents with cancer. …Anzeige