Acute Leukemia after Adjuvant Therapy of Gastrointestinal Cancer with Semustine (Methyl-CCNU)

Harvey E. Finkel; Fred Rosner; Hans W. Grünwald; John D. Boice; Mark H. Greene; John Y. Killen; Joseph F. Fraumeni

doi:10.1056/NEJM198404193101615

Acute Leukemia after Adjuvant Therapy of Gastrointestinal Cancer with Semustine (Methyl-CCNU)

Harvey E. Finkel
, Fred Rosner
, Hans W. Grünwald
, John D. Boice
, Mark H. Greene
, John Y. Killen
, Joseph F. Fraumeni

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To the Editor: … Being statistically ignorant, and probably biased, I have trouble dealing with one statement in the paper by Boice et al. (Nov. 3 issue) — namely, that the “six-year cumulative mean risk … of acquiring a leukemic disorder after treatment with semustine was 4.0 … percent.”* There were 14 cases of leukemia or a related disorder among a total of 2067 patients treated with the drug, which I calculate as a total frequency of 0.68 percent for the duration of the period of observation. Are the authors really predicting that 4 percent of the.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1057-1058
Number of pages	2
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	310
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198404193101615
State	Published - 19 Apr 1984
Externally published	Yes

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Acute Leukemia after Adjuvant Therapy of Gastrointestinal Cancer with Semustine (Methyl-CCNU)

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