Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Children.

@article{Hunger2015AcuteLL,
  title={Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Children.},
  author={Stephen P. Hunger and Charles G. Mullighan},
  journal={The New England journal of medicine},
  year={2015},
  volume={373 16},
  pages={
          1541-52
        }
}
The most common cancer in childhood is now curable in 90% of patients. Current efforts are focused on devising molecular-based therapy for the subsets of acute lymphoblastic leukemia that are most resistant to current therapy. 
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