Maurizio Aricò, MD1, Martin Schrappe, MD2, Stephen Hunger, MD3, William L. Carroll, MD4, Valentino Conter, MD5*, Paola Di Lorenzo6*, Atsushi Manabe, MD, PhD7, Vaskar Saha8*, Andre Baruchel, MD9, Kim Vettenranta, MD, PD10, Masahiro Tsuchida11, Yves Benoit12*, Rob Pieters, MD, PhD13, Gabriele Escherich14*, Lewis B. Silverman, MD15, Ching-Hon Pui, MD16 and Maria Grazia Valsecchi17*
1Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Meyer, Florence, Italy, Florence, Italy
2Pediatrics, University Medical Center, Kiel, Germany
3Pediatric Heme/Onc/BMT, Univ of Colorado College of Medicine, Aurora, CO
4NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY
5Department of Pediatrics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Ospedale S. Gerardo, Monza, Italy
6Dept of Clinical and Preventive Medicine, Universita' Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy
7Tokyo Children's Cancer Study Group, Japan
8Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group
9Dept. of Pediatric Hematology, Hopital Saint Louis, Paris, France
10University of Helsinki Children's Hosp., Helsinki, Finland
11Dept. of Pediatrics, Ibaraki Children's Hospital, Mito, Japan
12European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, France
13Dept. of Pediatric Hem./Onc., Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
14Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
15Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Inst., Boston, MA
16Dept. of Onc., St. Jude Children's Rsch./Hosp., Memphis, TN
17Dept of Clinical and Preventive Medicine, Università Milano Bicocca, for the International Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Study Group, Monza, Italy