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Comment
. 2020 Oct 15;136(16):1797-1798.
doi: 10.1182/blood.2020007863.

Intensive but tender care for infant ALL

Hiroto Inaba  1 , Ching-Hon Pui  1
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Intensive but tender care for infant ALL

Hiroto Inaba et al. Blood. .

Abstract

In this issue of Blood, Tomizawa et al report remarkably improved outcomes for 90 infants with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) by providing excellent supportive care while receiving intensive chemotherapy and the use of hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) for specific high-risk groups.

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Conflict-of-interest disclosure: The authors declare no competing financial interests.

Conflict-of-interest disclosure: The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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