Successful treatment without cranial radiotherapy of children receiving intensified chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: results of the risk-stratified randomized central nervous system treatment trial MRC UKALL XI (ISRC TN 16757172).

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Published in Br J Haematol on January 01, 2004

Authors

Frank G H Hill1, Sue Richards, Brenda Gibson, Ian Hann, John Lilleyman, Sally Kinsey, Christopher Mitchell, Christine J Harrison, Osborn B Eden, UK Medical Research Council Working Party on Childhood Leukaemia

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Clinical & Laboratory Haematology, The Children's Hospital NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK. frank.hill@bch.nhs.uk

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