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. 2018 Sep:4:1-7.
doi: 10.1200/JGO.17.00054. Epub 2017 Dec 22.

Proposal of a Risk-Stratification Platform to Address Distinct Clinical Features of Pediatric Kaposi Sarcoma in Lilongwe, Malawi

Nader Kim El-Mallawany  1 , William Kamiyango  1 , Jimmy Villiera  1 , Jeremy S Slone  1 , Carrie L Kovarik  1 , Liane R Campbell  1 , Anurag K Agrawal  1 , Dirk P Dittmer  1 , Anthony B Eason  1 , Saeed Ahmed  1 , Gordon E Schutze  1 , Michael E Scheurer  1 , Peter N Kazembe  1 , Parth S Mehta  1
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Proposal of a Risk-Stratification Platform to Address Distinct Clinical Features of Pediatric Kaposi Sarcoma in Lilongwe, Malawi

Nader Kim El-Mallawany et al. J Glob Oncol. 2018 Sep.
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Kaplan-Meier survival curves for children and adolescents with Kaposi sSarcoma (KS) stratified by stage. The probability of 2-year event-free survival (left panels) and overall survival (right panels) stratified by (A) the Lilongwe Pediatric KS Staging Classification (EFS and OS, P < .001 for each) (1A) as well as based uponor (B) the AIDS Clinical Trial Group (ACTG) T1 versus T0 tumor staging (1B). (T0 and T1 comparison: EFS P = .0138 and OS P = .1155).
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