Abstract:Background: Leukemia in children has a good prognosis with an overall cure rate of 85% in pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and 50-60% in pediatric patients with acute myeloid leukemia. Nevertheless in patients with refractory or relapsed leukemia the prognosis is limited and can only be cured by a salvage chemotherapy, in most cases followed by an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Methods: In this retrospective case cohort ananlysis we investigated the outcome of eight pat… Show more
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