TY - BOOK AU - Yasmin Ibrahim Mohamed Ibrahim AU - Ibteessam Mohamed Saad Eldin , AU - Noha Yehia Abduo Ibrahim, AU - Wael Samir Makar , TI - Acute leukemia in children : : An updated overview / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Yasmin Ibrahim Mohamed Ibrahim , KW - Acute lymphoblastic leukemia KW - Acute myeloid leukemia KW - Childhood acute leukemia N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Oncology-Clinical; Issued also as CD N2 - Acute leukemia, most common childhood cancer, classified into ALL (70-80%) and AML (20%). Recent trial proved that treatment with risk-adjusted paradigm improve event free survival in ALL to 80% and in AML to 50% however more effort still needed, and novel treatment still under investigation. Prodhylactic cranial irradiation can be omitted with new risk adjustad chemotherapy + intrathecal treatment ER -