Secondary brain tumours in children with ALL

Lancet. 1999 Sep 25;354(9184):1126-7. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)76923-3.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Alleles
  • Antimetabolites / therapeutic use
  • Central Nervous System Neoplasms / epidemiology*
  • Central Nervous System Neoplasms / etiology
  • Child
  • Germany / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Mercaptopurine / therapeutic use
  • Methyltransferases / genetics*
  • Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / epidemiology*
  • Neoplasms, Second Primary / epidemiology*
  • Neoplasms, Second Primary / etiology
  • Polymorphism, Genetic
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / radiotherapy*

Substances

  • Antimetabolites
  • Mercaptopurine
  • Methyltransferases
  • thiopurine methyltransferase