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Does your institution omit prophylactic cranial irradiation in high risk ALL patients greater than 3 years of age?

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Radiation Oncology · St Jude Children's Research Hospital

The general trend worldwide has been to continue to reduce the proportion of patients receiving preemptive CNS directed radiotherapy, although some groups still utilize cranial radiotherapy in the front line setting for small subsets of patients with CNS3 disease at diagnosis, T-cell immunophenotype...

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