Therapy of pediatric ALL: From Bowie to Obama

Abstract

In this issue of Blood, van der Veer et al report that the Ph-like/BCR-ABL1-like phenotype and IKZF1 deletions, but not CRLF2 alterations, are independent negative prognostic factors in a large study encompassing 4 cohorts of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). © 2013 by The American Society of Hematology.