Best Practice & Research Clinical Haematology
Volume 22, Issue 4 , Pages 557-566 , December 2009

Role of reduced intensity transplant in adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: If and when?

  • Stephen J. Forman, MD (Chair and Director, Clinical Research)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1500 E. Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, United States
    • Department of Cancer Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1500 E. Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationTel.: +001 626 256 4673x62405; Fax: +001 626 3018256.

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doi: 10.1016/j.beha.2009.10.006

Best Practice & Research Clinical Haematology
Volume 22, Issue 4 , Pages 557-566 , December 2009

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