Sökning: "childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 18 avhandlingar innehållade orden childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
6. Pharmacogenetic studies in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia with primary focus on methotrexate
Sammanfattning : Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is the most common type of cancer in children. Improvement in treatment has increased survival to approximately 85 per cent. LÄS MER
7. Characterisation of chromosomal aberrations in childhood leukaemia
Sammanfattning : Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most common malignancy in childhood, accounting for approximately 25% of all paediatric malignancies. Based on clinical risk criteria and modem laboratory investigations including immunophenotyping, cytogenetics, and molecular genetics, patients can be divided into prognostic groups and assigned to risk- adjusted treatment protocols. LÄS MER
8. Epidemiological studies including new methods for cluster analysis of acute childhood leukaemia and brain tumours in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Background: The aetiology in childhood cancer is essentially unknown. Epidemiological investigations as to whether the incidence rates have changed for paediatric cancers or whether clustering of cases occur may give clues to possible causal factors. LÄS MER
9. Long-term Morbidity and Socioeconomic Outcome among Nordic Childhood Cancer Survivors
Sammanfattning : Survival after childhood cancer has improved dramatically during the past four decades, resulting in a five-year survival rate of 80% in children recently treated for cancer in the Nordic countries. However, these advances in treatment and survival has come at a price, and many survivors face significant treatment-induced sequelae, most of which only become clinically apparent many years after the child has been cured. LÄS MER
10. Sad, shattered or slow? Fatigue after childhood cancer
Sammanfattning : Systematic assessments of cognition, fatigue, and mental health in survivors ofchildhood cancer can serve two different purposes. One is to enable research about development over time and medical predictors of cognitive deficits. The other is to identify individual patients in need of rehabilitation or interventions. LÄS MER