Abstract:Background: Leukemia is the most prevalent pediatric malignancy, representing 25% of all cancer diagnoses among children. Despite recent substantial improvements in therapy that have dramatically increased survival, 10-20% of cases develop relapse and become refractory to treatment. Although racial/ethnic disparity in survival is well documented, limited knowledge currently exists on the disparity in relapse. The objective of this study was to compare the risk of pediatric leukemia relapse between Hispanic Whi… Show more
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