- Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC)
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
- B-Cell (or pre-B Cell)
- Bactrim
- BFM Protocol (Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster)
- Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT)
- Broviac
- Cancer Kid (CK)
- CAR T cell therapy (CAR-T)
- Central Nervous System (CNS)
- Children’s Oncology Group (COG)
- Complete Blood Cell (CBC) test
- Consolidation (CONS)
- Cure
- Cyclophosphamide (CPM)
- Cytarabine (ara-C)
- Daunorubicin
- Delayed Intensification (DI)
- Dexamethasone (DEX)
- Diagnosis (DX)
- Doxorubicin (DOX)
- End of Treatment (EOT)
- Erwinia (Erwinaze)
- Frontline
- Hemoglobin (HEMO)
- High Risk (HR)
- High-Dose Methotrexate (HD MTX)
- Induction (IND)
- Inpatient
- Interim Maintenance (IM)
- Intramuscular (IM)
- Intrathecal (IT)
- Intravenous (IV)
- Leukemia
- Long-term Maintenance (MAINT or LTM)
- Low Risk (LR)
- Lumbar Puncture (LP)
- Magic mouthwash
- Mercaptopurine (6MP)
- Methotrexate (MTX)
- Minimal residual disease (MRD)
- Mucositis
- Naso-gastric (NG) Tube
- Neuropathy
- Neutropenia
- Nurse Practitioner (NP)
- Off Treatment (OT)
- Oncologist (ONC)
- Outpatient
- Pancreatitis
- PEG-L-asparaginase (PEG)
- Platelets
- Port-a-cath (Port)
- Prednisone (PRED)
- Red Blood Cell (RBC)
- Refractory
- Registered Nurse (RN)
- Relapse
- Remission
- Standard Risk (SR)
- T-Cell
- Thioguanine (6-TG)
- Very High Risk (VHR)
- Vincristine (VCR)
- White Blood Cell (WBC)
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