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Note: Boldface page numbers treatments for
indicate illustrations. historical, 4–5
immunotherapy, 49–50
acquired mutations standard, 39–40
as cause of cancer stem cell transplants,
ALL and, 33–34 43–44
chromosome targeted therapy, 47, 48
translocations, 34 acute myelogenous (bone-
environment and, 29–30 marrow-forming) leukemia
percentage caused by, 28 (AML), 11–12
random genetic accidents, alleles, described, 27
30–32 American Cancer Society
Wilms tumor and, 34 on cell division, 30
described, 28 on lifestyle as cause of
acute lymphoblastic leukemia cancer, 23
(ALL) on response of childhood
B cells and, 34, 49, 50 cancers to chemotherapy,
development of, 11 40
gene mutations as cause, on tumor suppressor genes,
33–34 32
percentage achieving cure or apoptosis, described, 9
long-term remission, 5–6
as percentage of all B cells
leukemias, 11 ALL and, 34, 49, 50
symptoms, 11–12 function of, 11
T cells and, 49–50 Hodgkin lymphoma and, 20
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