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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Sep 6;65(2):10.1002/pbc.26788. doi: 10.1002/pbc.26788

TABLE 1.

Description of cohort by trial enrollment status

Overall
Not enrolled
Enrolled
n (%) n (%) n (%) Pa
Total cohort 274 100 122 45.5 152 55.5 -
Age (mean, median [range]) 7.4, 5.2 [1.2–20.0] 7.9, 5.6 [1.6–20.0] 6.9, 4.8 [1.2–19.0] 0.11
 Age <15 238 87.0 103 84.4 135 88.8 0.26
 Age ≥15 36 13.1 19 15.6 17 11.2
Sex
 Female 135 49.3 61 50.0 74 48.7 0.83
 Male 139 50.7 61 50.0 78 51.3
Ethnicity
 Not-Hispanic 78 28.5 28 23.0 50 32.9 0.07
 Hispanic 196 71.5 94 77.0 102 67.1
Down syndrome
 Not Down syndrome 267 97.4 119 97.5 148 97.4 1.00
 Down syndrome 7 2.6 3 2.5 4 2.6
NCI/Rome risk
 SR 167 60.9 74 60.7 93 61.2 0.93
 HR 107 39.1 48 39.3 59 38.8
Presenting WBC (max)
 WBC (mean, median [range]) 39.1, 9.0 [0.3–771.8] 36.3, 8.3 [0.3–771.8] 41.2, 11.5 [0.8–562] 0.43
 WBC <50 K/μl 222 81.0 100 82.0 122 80.3 0.72
 WBC ≥50 K/μl 52 19.0 22 18.0 30 19.7
CNS status
 CNS1 244 89.1 108 88.5 136 89.5 0.38
 CNS2 28 10.2 14 11.5 14 9.2
 CNS3 2 0.7 0 0 2 1.3
Cytogenetic Categoryb
 Average 157 57.3 79 64.8 78 51.3 0.02
 Favorable 113 41.2 43 35.2 70 46.1
 Unfavorable 4 1.5 0 0 4 2.6
EOI MRD
 <0.01% 165 60.2 66 54.1 99 65.1 0.15
 ≥0.01% 40 14.6 22 18.0 18 11.8
 Unknown 69 25.2 34 27.9 35 22.7
   For MRD+ (median, [range]) 0.26 [0.012–36] 0.22 [0.026–36] 0.30 [0.012–22.4] 0.91

NCI, National Cancer Institute; WBC, white blood cell; CNS, central nervous system; EOI MRD, end of induction minimal residual disease (bone marrow).

a

Pearson chi-square, Fisher exact test, or K-S test; significance set at P < 0.05 (bolded).

b

Favorable includes “double trisomy” 4+10 (n = 45) and ETV6-RUNX1 (n = 69). Unfavorable includes hypodiploid (<44 chromosomes, n = 1), rMLL (n = 3), iAMP21 (n = 0).