Lymphoblastic lymphoma: Late relapse in childhood

✍ Scribed by Levine, Peter L. ;Berberich, F. Ralph ;Burke, Jerome S. ;Mott, Martin G. ;Wilbur, Jordan R.

• Book ID: 102521571
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 442 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-1532
• DOI: 10.1002/mpo.2950110107

✦ Synopsis

This report describes two children with lym-tremely rare in patients receiving contemphoblastic lymphoma who relapsed more porary chemotherapy programs, and two-year than 2% years from diagnosis. Relapses oc-survival without disease has been considered curred at seven and 20 months after comple-a cure. These cases illustrate that late relapses tion of treatment. Their therapy consisted of can occur after intensive chemotherapy and an intensive pulse chemotherapy program that two-year disease-free survival must not combined with radiation therapy. Initial rebe interpreted as a complete cure. lapse after two years' treatment has been ex-