Racial and ethnic disparities in childhood and young adult acute lymphocytic leukemia

Previous studies have identified racial and ethnic disparities in childhood ALL survival. A pooled analysis of eight Children’s Oncology Group trials investigated whether these disparities persist in contemporaneous cohorts. The analysis showed that among children and young adults (aged 0-30 years) substantial disparities in outcome for B-cell ALL persist by race and ethnicity, but are not observed in T-cell ALL.