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St. Jude Leukemia Therapy Has Overcome Differences in Treatment Outcome Between Black and White Children; St. Jude study comparing long-term outcomes of children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia shows that black children can do as well as white children if given equal access to latest treatments.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have found that black children are equally likely as white children to benefit from improved treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), if given equal access to the most advanced therapies.

This finding -- that black and white children had virtually equal rates of survival over 10 years -- contrasts with the results of clinical studies from the Pediatric Oncology Group (POG) and Children's Cancer Group (CCG). The POG and CCG multi-center studies showed that black children lagged behind white children in the cure rate for ALL.

Even though black children referred to ...

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