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Comment
. 2014 Aug 14;124(7):987-9.
doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-06-581603.

First do no harm: infectious deaths in pediatric ALL

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First do no harm: infectious deaths in pediatric ALL

Karen R Rabin. Blood. .

Abstract

In this issue of Blood, O’Connor and colleagues describe infection-related mortality on the United Kingdom Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Randomised Trial 2003 (UKALL 2003) for children with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia, reporting a 5-year cumulative incidence of 2.4%, with Down syndrome (DS) being the factor most predictive of increased risk.

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Conflict-of-interest disclosure: The author declares no competing financial interests.

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Timing of IRM in DS and non-DS patients (*P < .048). See Figure 2A in the article by O'Connor et al that begins on page 1056.

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