Mta. Obama et al., CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA IS STILL A DEADLY DISEASE IN YAOUNDE, CAMEROON - AREPORT OF 14 CASES, Pediatric hematology and oncology, 12(3), 1995, pp. 301-304
In the Pediatric Unit of the University Teaching Hospital Center of Ya
ounde, 58 of 2,900 (2%) hospitalized children aged 0 to 15 years who h
ad a malignancy were studied. Fourteen (24.1%) had acute leukemia base
d on morphologic and cytochemical studies. Acute lymphoblastic leukemi
a was encountered in II of these patients (78.6%). The male to female
ratio was 1.3 to 1. Nine of the 11 children (64.3%) were 5 years of ag
e or younger. Eleven (78.6%) died of disease progression and its compl
ications.