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Table 2 Demographics, treatment characteristics and incidence of treatment-related toxicities in ERASE and ASSET cohorts

From: Prospective longitudinal evaluation of treatment-related toxicity and health-related quality of life during the first year of treatment for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Baseline Information

ERASE (n = 1251)

ASSET (N = 260)

 

N

%

N

%

P value

Median age at diagnosis + range (months)

59 (9–227)

 

59 (1–213)

 

0.4457*

Median duration of follow up + range (months)

79 (3–186)

 

28 (1–62)

 

< 0.001*

OS at 3 years

95.5 ± 0.6

 

98.3 ± 0.8

 

0.1511

LFS at 3 years

90.7 ± 0.8

 

97.4 ± 1.2

 

0.0016

EFS at 3 years

87.2 ± 1.0

 

96.3 ± 1.4

 

0.0031

Gender

 Male

671

53.6

144

55.4

0.6071†

(Χ2 0.26)

Immunophenotype

 Pre B-cell

1082

86.5

226

86.9

0.5740†

(Χ2 0.3)

 T-cell

151

12.1

33

12.7

 MPAL/Other

18

1.4

1

0.4

Treatment Platform

 COG

218

17.4

173

66.5

< 0.0001†

(Χ2 233.3)

 BFM

1033

82.6

80

30.8

 Interfant

0

0.0

7

2.7

Risk Classification

 Low/Standard Risk

515

41.2

82

31.5

< 0.0001†

(Χ2 20.8)

 Medium/Average/ Intermediate Risk

446

35.7

83

31.9

 High/Very High Risk

264

21.1

81

31.2

 Unknown

26

2.1

14

5.4

Toxicity

 Symptomatic venous thromboembolism

68

5.4

20

7.7

0.1488

 Neurotoxicity (≥ grade 3)

111

8.9

31

11.9

0.1319

 Bone

239

19.1

14

5.4

0.0001

 Pancreatitis

48

3.8

13

5.0

0.3695

  1. OS Overall survival, LFS Leukaemia Free Survival, EFS Event Free Survival
  2. *Mann-Whitney Test (independent samples)
  3. †Chi-squared test