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Long-term survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

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    Current treatment of children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) gives an overall 5-year survival rate of 80–86% and a 5-year event-free survival rate of 78–83%. Some of these survivors will suffer relapse, second cancers, or other complications between 5 and 10 years after first treatment but many will be cured. Now a report from St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee (

    Ching-Hon Pui and colleagues. New England Journal of Medicine2003;349:640–9; see also perspective article, ibid: 627–8
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    ) has illustrated the excellent prognosis for those who survive …

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