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Integrative Molecular Pathological Epidemiology Of Congenital And Infant Acute Leukemia, Heather Elizabeth Williams
Integrative Molecular Pathological Epidemiology Of Congenital And Infant Acute Leukemia, Heather Elizabeth Williams
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Congenital and infant acute leukemia remain one of the most puzzling clinical issues in pediatric hematology-oncology. There is a paucity of studies focused on these rare, aggressive, acute leukemias; specifically, there is little study on the differences in disease in the youngest of infants less than 1 year of age unlike the numerous studies of the disease in older children. The United States National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) cancer population registry program has been integral for a plethora of clinical population and pathology research studies for numerous diseases in the last 40 years and has an …