Decreased Adult Height in Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

Chow, Eric J.; Friedman, Debra L.; Yasui, Yutaka; Whitton, John A.; Stovall, Marilyn; Robison, Leslie L.; Sklar, Charles A.

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2006.11.036

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Volume 150, Issue 4 , Pages 370-375.e1, April 2007

Decreased Adult Height in Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington; the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; the Department of Radiation Physics, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; the Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee; and the Department of Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.

Received 25 May 2006; received in revised form 19 August 2006; accepted 9 November 2006.

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Supported by grant U24-CA55727 (L.L. Robison, Principal Investigator), from the National Institutes of Health and funding provided to the University of Minnesota by the Children’s Center Research Fund.

PII: S0022-3476(06)01111-5

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2006.11.036

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