The past several decades have seen a marked improvement in survival for patients with hematologic malignancies. The 5-year survival is as follows: leukemia, 66%; Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), 89%; non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), 75%; and multiple myeloma (MM), 54%. As a consequence,…
The past several decades have seen a marked improvement in survival for patients with hematologic malignancies. The 5-year survival is as follows: leukemia, 66%; Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), 89%; non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), 75%; and multiple myeloma (MM), 54%. As a consequence,…
Leukemias of childhood are a highly heterogeneous group of diseases. In reviewing the descriptive and analytic epidemiology of these malignancies, we have, when possible, emphasized specific subgroups as defined by morphologic, cytogenetic, or molecular features. In selected instances, evidence indicates…