Educational attainment in long-term survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Riccardo Haupt; Thomas R. Fears; Leslie L. Robison; James L. Mills; H. Stacy Nicholson; Lonnie K. Zeltzer; Anna T. Meadows; Julianne Byrne

doi:10.1001/jama.272.18.1427

Educational attainment in long-term survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Riccardo Haupt, Thomas R. Fears, Leslie L. Robison, James L. Mills, H. Stacy Nicholson, Lonnie K. Zeltzer, Anna T. Meadows, Julianne Byrne

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Objective. - To determine the impact of treatment on scholastic performance in the first cohort of survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia who are old enough to have completed their educational experience. Design. - Retrospective cohort study. Setting. - Twenty-three institutions in the Childrens Cancer Group. Subjects. - A total of 593 adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia and 409 sibling controls. Outcome Measures. - Enrollment in special programs, grades during high school, graduation from high school, college admission, and college graduation. Results. - After diagnosis, survivors were more likely than their sibling controls to enter a special education (relative risk [RR] =3.4; P

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1427-1432
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of the American Medical Association
Volume	272
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.272.18.1427
State	Published - Nov 9 1994
Externally published	Yes

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