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Medicina: Oncoematologia pediatrica: Leucemia linfoblastica acuta
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| Radiotherapy aimed at the entire body often given in several doses prior to bone marrow transplantation with the aim of killing any residual leukaemia in the patient (which also destroys the immune system´s ability to make blood cells hence the transplant of cells back into the patient(. It is used in conjunction with high dose anti-cancer drugs. |
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| http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/lrf-/diseases/index.htm; http://www.lymphomainfo.net/lymphoma/glossary.html |
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| One of the results of the early years of combination chemotherapy was the demonstration that many leukemias quickly develop drug resistance resulting in subsequent relapse; one solution to this problem was the development of more intensive chemotherapy combined with total body irradiation followed by bone marrow transplantation. |
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| Pediatric Oncohematology |
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| Radiotherapy |
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| Ganzkörperbestrahlung |
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| irradiazione corporea totale |
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