Abstract:Background: Outcomes of unselected adult ALL patients (pts) have not been well studied at a population level. Whether such pts behave differently to those in formal clinical trials is unclear. We developed a uniform therapeutic protocol as the provincial standard of care in Manitoba, a province with 1.2 million people, for adult pts since 1989 (“ALL89-1”). The aim of this retrospective study was: to ascertain the local epidemiology of adult ALL; to analyze the efficacy and toxicity of the ALL89-1 regimen and a… Show more
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