Leukemia Research
Volume 28, Issue 12 , Pages 1273-1280 , December 2004

Histopathologic verification of acute leukemia (AL) in a cohort of 463 post-Chernobyl patients from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine

  • Philip L. McCarthy Jr.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Blood and Marrow Transplant Section, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 716 845 8707; fax: +1 716 845 3272.
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  • Ora Paltiel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Social Medicine, Hadassah Medical Organization, Keriyat Hadassah, P.O. Box 12000, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
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  • Elena Maslova

      Affiliations

    • Data Coordination Office, International Consortium for Research on the Health Effects of Radiation, Russian Federation, Pogodinskaya 8, Building 2, First Floor, Moscow 12657, Russia
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  • Sergei Kulikov

      Affiliations

    • Data Coordination Office, International Consortium for Research on the Health Effects of Radiation, Russian Federation, Pogodinskaya 8, Building 2, First Floor, Moscow 12657, Russia
    • National Center for Hematology, Novozikovsky, pr. 4a, Moscow 125167, Russia
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  • Theresa Hahn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Blood and Marrow Transplant Section, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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  • Kenneth J. Kopecky

      Affiliations

    • Southwest Oncology Group Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, M3-C102, P.O. Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA
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  • Vera Drozdova

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Haematology and Transfusiology, M. Berlinskogo Street, 12, Kiev 01060, Ukraine
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  • Natalya Shmatina

      Affiliations

    • Haematology and Transplantology Center, Number 9 Hospital, Semashko Street, 8, Minsk 220089, Belarus
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  • Ludmilla Tichonova

      Affiliations

    • Data Coordination Office, International Consortium for Research on the Health Effects of Radiation, Russian Federation, Pogodinskaya 8, Building 2, First Floor, Moscow 12657, Russia
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  • Jack Van Hoff

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, 333 Cedar St. LMP 4087, P.O. Box 208064, New Haven, CT 06520-8064, USA
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  • Inna Gavrilova

      Affiliations

    • Haematology and Transplantology Center, Number 9 Hospital, Semashko Street, 8, Minsk 220089, Belarus
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  • Howard Weinstein

      Affiliations

    • Chief, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, 55 Fruit St. Ellison 325, Boston, MA 02114-2696, USA

Received 2 October 2003 ,Accepted 14 April 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.leukres.2004.04.008

Leukemia Research
Volume 28, Issue 12 , Pages 1273-1280 , December 2004

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