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Open AccessDetection of the PAX3-FKHR fusion gene in paediatric rhabdomyosarcoma: a reproducible predictor of outcome?
Rhabdomyosarcoma has 2 major histological subtypes, embryonal and alveolar. Alveolar histology is associated with the fusion genes PAX3-FKHR and PAX7-FKHR. Definition of alveolar has been complicated by changes i...
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Double megatherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation for advanced neuroblastoma: the LMCE2 study
In the LMCE1 study using a single course of megatherapy most of the relapses occurred during the first 2 years after autologous bone marrow transplantation. A second pilot study (LMCE2) was therefore set up us...
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Outcome of children with resistant and relapsed Hodgkin's disease
During the period 1974-89, 169 children with Hodgkin's disease were treated in the Paediatric Oncology Units of the Royal Marsden and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. The overall actuarial survival for the whole gr...
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High-dose cytosine arabinoside plus etoposide as initial treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia: a single centre study
In a single centre, 52 newly diagnosed patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) under the age of 56 years received induction chemotherapy commencing with high-dose cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C) and etoposide ...
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High dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation in refractory Hodgkin's disease
Seventeen patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD) were treated with high-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT). Eleven patients were resistant to initial therapy. Three patie...