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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Therapeutic interventions for Burkitt lymphoma in children

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD005198.pub3Copy DOI
Database:
  1. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Version published:
  1. 06 July 2011see what's new
Type:
  1. Intervention
Stage:
  1. Review
Cochrane Editorial Group:

  1. Cochrane Haematology Group

Copyright:
  1. Copyright © 2011 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Authors

  • Joseph U Okebe

    Correspondence to: Medical Research Council Unit, Banjul, Gambia

    [email protected]

  • Nicole Skoetz

    Cochrane Haematological Malignancies Group, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  • Martin M Meremikwu

    Department of Paediatrics, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria

  • Sue Richards

    Clinical Trials Services Unit, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Contributions of authors

JO wrote the draft of the review with contributions from MM (discussion), SR (results/statistics). The draft was amended by JO after comments from all review authors. TL edited the final draft and helped with the tables and figures. For the update, JO and NS reviewed the new search and revised the text of the review.

Sources of support

Internal sources

  • No sources of support supplied

External sources

  • Jim Milan Memorial Award, UK.

  • The Editorial Base of CHMG is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) FKZ : 01GH0501, Germany.

Declarations of interest

The authors report no conflict of interest.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful for the receipt of the Jim Milan Memorial Award which funded the travel and subsistence of Dr Okebe while at the UKCC, and which helped us to complete this review. We are extremely grateful to Dr Jane Dennis, Julie Millener and Joanne Abbott of the Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Group for kind and continual assistance in locating and retrieving trial reports on our behalf. We would also like to thank staff of the Cochrane Haematological Malignancies Group (CHMG) for editorial support.

Toby Lasserson contributed to the first version of the review by contributing to the write‐up and constructing tables and figures.

Version history

Published

Title

Stage

Authors

Version

2011 Jul 06

Therapeutic interventions for Burkitt lymphoma in children

Review

Joseph U Okebe, Nicole Skoetz, Martin M Meremikwu, Sue Richards

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD005198.pub3

2006 Oct 18

Therapeutic interventions for Burkitt's lymphoma in children

Review

Joseph U Okebe, Toby J Lasserson, Martin M Meremikwu, Sue Richards

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD005198.pub2

2005 Apr 20

Therapeutic interventions for endemic Burkitt's lymphoma in children

Protocol

J Okebe, Sue Richards, Martin M Meremikwu, JOSEPH U OKEBE

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD005198

Differences between protocol and review

In this update, the background has been revised to take into account the classification of the disease and diagnosis methods. The methods section was revised in line with the updates to the Cochrane review format.