lymphoblastic leukaemia BrE
lymphoblastic leukemia AmE

Mutations in this gene have been associated to cases of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Deletions of 9p occur in 7-13% of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

This gene has also been seen recurrently mutated in cases of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

All four children had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia diagnosed between the ages of 2 and 4 years, the year of diagnosis ranging from 1972 to 1988.

It was also shown to improve the survival of children suffering from first relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Scientists develop genetically engineered T-lymphocytes that have been proven successful in treating cases of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

McGrath P: Treatment for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: the fathers' perspective.

High expression of glycophorin C has been associated with a poor prognosis for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in the Chinese.

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

The most progress has been made in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, where potent drugs and bone-marrow transplants have radically improved the survival rate.

Furthermore, a rearrangement of the IRF-1 gene was identified in one additional patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Whitlock JA: Down syndrome and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Nachman J: Clinical characteristics, biologic features and outcome for young adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Surfactant adjunctive therapy for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis in an infant with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Duration and intensity of maintenance chemotherapy in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: overview of 42 trials involving 12 000 randomised children.

The only structural abnormality of IRF-1 was found in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a disease not normally associated with 5q deletions.

Jones LK, Saha V: Philadelphia positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia of childhood.

Porter was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) in July 1998.

These include acute myeloid leukaemia - the cancer associated with benzene in workplace studies - and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, the type common in children.

Pui CH, Jeha S: New therapeutic strategies for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia never occurs in childhood, and so in children lymphoid leukaemia is equivalent to acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Aidan Reed, five, from Kansas City, U.S., was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia on September 13 last year.

Davies HA, Lilleyman JS: Compliance with oral chemotherapy in childhood lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Several diseases are associated with Interleukin-7 receptor including T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Fifty children had leukaemia diagnosed (39 had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and 11 other forms of leukaemia) and six had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.