RESULTS
Descriptive characteristics of patients with ALL are displayed inTable 1. For the period 2004-2018, the
study included 394 patients with a male preponderance of 220 (55.8%)
vs. 174 females (44.2 %), and a male-to-female ratio of 1.26, (P
= 0.011). There were 323 children (81.9%), and 71 adolescents (18.1
%). For the whole group, median age at diagnosis was 7 years (2 months
– 20 years); median age for females was 5 years (2 months – 20 years)
vs. 8.5 years (3 months –20 years) for males (P = 0 .009). Median
follow-up was 32 months (1 – 171). In the group of children there were
172 males (53.3%) and 151 females (46.7%), (P = 0.243). For
adolescents there were 48 males (67.6%) and 23 females (32.4%),
(P =0.003). Additional data are shown inTable 1.