Impact of corticosteroid pretreatment in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed B-lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the Children’s Oncology Group

• Elizabeth A. Raetz,
• Mignon L. Loh,
• Meenakshi Devidas,
• Kelly Maloney,
• Leonard A. Mattano,
• Eric Larsen,
• Andrew Carroll,
• Nyla A. Heerema,
• Julie M. Gastier-Foster,
• Brent Wood,
• Michael J. Borowitz,
• Naomi Winick,
• Stephen P. Hunger,
• William L. Carroll

Affiliations

Elizabeth A. Raetz

Department of Pediatrics and Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY

Mignon L. Loh

Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children’s Hospital, and the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Meenakshi Devidas

Department of Biostatistics, Colleges of Medicine, Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Kelly Maloney

Department of Pediatrics University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO

Leonard A. Mattano

HARP Pharma Consulting, Mystic, CT

Eric Larsen

Department of Pediatrics, Maine Children’s Cancer Program, Scarborough, ME

Andrew Carroll

Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Nyla A. Heerema

Department of Pathology, Wexner Medical Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Julie M. Gastier-Foster

Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH

Brent Wood

Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Michael J. Borowitz

Departments of Pathology and Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD

Naomi Winick

Departments of Pediatrics, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX

Stephen P. Hunger

Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA

William L. Carroll

Department of Pediatrics and Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY