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. 2017 Mar 30;129(13):1878-1881.
doi: 10.1182/blood-2016-11-749507. Epub 2017 Jan 25.

Overall survival among older US adults with ALL remains low despite modest improvement since 1980: SEER analysis

Mark B Geyer  1 , Meier Hsu  2 , Sean M Devlin  2 , Martin S Tallman  1 , Dan Douer  1 , Jae H Park  1   3
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Overall survival among older US adults with ALL remains low despite modest improvement since 1980: SEER analysis

Mark B Geyer et al. Blood. .
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Figure 1.
OS in months from time of diagnosis among adults age ≥60 years newly diagnosed with ALL, stratified by time period of diagnosis. OS differed significantly by time period of diagnosis (P < .001) and was greatest in patients diagnosed in 2000-2011.
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