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Childhood leukemia: cooperative Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster trials in the Federal Republic of Germany

21st Symposium of the Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung der Krebskrankheiten Nordrhein-Westfalen (GBK), Düsseldorf, June 1989

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Abbreviations

BFM:

Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster

ALL:

acute lymphoblastic leukemia

AML:

acute myelogenous leukemia

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Ritter, J., Creutzig, U., Reiter, A. et al. Childhood leukemia: cooperative Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster trials in the Federal Republic of Germany. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 116, 100–103 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01612648

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