In 1971, Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) mounted a study of acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) that compared the effects of the two steroid hormones dexamethasone and prednisone. Six-hundred-forty-six children and adolescents with ALL were randomized to receive either prednisone or dexamethasone a
Dexamethasone in the treatment of meningeal leukemia
✍ Scribed by Dr. David Gómez-Almaguer; Oscar González-Llano; Jorge Montemayor; José C. Jaime-Pérez; Cesar Galindo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 185 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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