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Resources for ALL from GrannyBarb and Art's Leukemia Links
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- The NCI PDQ patient statement on acute lymphocytic leukemia for adults .
- The NCI PDQ physician statement on acute lymphocytic leukemia for adults .
- The NCI PDQ patient statement on acute lymphocytic leukemia for children .
- The NCI PDQ physician statement on acute lymphocytic leukemia for children .
- BMTs for Acute
Lymphocytic Leukemia from BMT Newsletter November
1994 (Issue #26).
- Overview of Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia of Childhood applied Medical Informatics
- Leukemia from ACOR's Pediatric Oncology Resources , gives an overview of diagnosis and treatment of pediatric leukemia. Links to news to other information and stories of childhood leukemia survivors.
- Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) a booklet from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America which aims to provide information about ALL to patients and their families. It is also available in Spanish: Leucemia Linfocitica Aguda .
- Understanding
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) a basic introduction to
ALL from CancerbACUP an
organization in England that aims to help people live with cancer by
providing information, emotional support and
counselling.
- The Childhood Leukemia
Center , an excellent site, Not to be missed! . It
provides lots of useful information about dealing with Childhood
Leukemia. The material in this Center has been excerpted or adapted
from Childhood Leukemia: A
Guide for Families, Friends, and Caregivers by Nancy Keene
, third edition, copyright 2002 by O'Reilly & Associates,
Inc. . Information includes a FAQ
on childhood leukemia , an
explanation of blood counts ,
practical tips for parents of children with leukemia and
more. Although this site is oriented towards childhood leukemia, there
is useful infomation about adult leukemia too.
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by Karen Seiter, MD, from the eMedicine World Medicine Library . This is a very technical review of the symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatment of adult ALL .
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by Jeffrey E Rubnitz, MD, PhD, from the eMedicine World Medicine Library . This is a very technical review of the symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatment of pediatric ALL .
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia from CancerConsultants.com is an overview of the treatment of ALL for patients.
 | | | Journal articles and abstracts on ALL |
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Gene-Expression Patterns in Drug-Resistant Acute
Lymphoblastic Leukemia Cells and Response to Treatment
, from the New
England Journal of Medicine , August 5, 2004, Volume
351, No. 6, pages 533-542, by Holleman, Amy,
et. al. (article abstract) the full article
requires a paid subscription, until 6 months after
publication, after which it is free, although
registration is required. This articles describes a
study that examined leukemia cells in childrent to try
and determine if certain genes could be identified that
predict treatment outcomes and disease resistance.
- Extended Follow-up of Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia from the New England Journal of Medicine August 14, 2003, Volume 349, No. 7, pages 640-649 by Pui, Ching-Hon Pui, et. al. This articles looks at childhood survivors of ALL who were treated at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital between 1962 and 1992. It concludes that children with ALL who did not receive radiation and survive 10 or more years of event-free survival can expect a normal long-term survival. Children who received radiation have a higher risk of secondary cancers and a slightly greater risk of early death.
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Activity of a Specific Inhibitor of the BCR-aBL Tyrosine
Kinase in the Blast Crisis of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with the Philadelphia
Chromosome from
the New England Journal
of Medicine april 5, 2001, Vol. 344, No. 14, pages
1038-1042 by Brian J. Druker, et. al. This article
reports on the use of STI-571 (Glivec) in patients with
ALL who have the Philadelphia chromosome (and also some
patients with CML in Blast Crisis).
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