OBJECTIVETo evaluate the efficacy of CCCG-BNHL-2015 protocol in treatment of children with mature B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (mature B-ALL).

METHODSSeven pediatric patients with newly diagnosed mature B-ALL were treated by CCCG-BNHL-2015 protocol (risk group R4) in Children's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University from November 2014 to January 2017.

RESULTSThe median age of patients at initial diagnosis was 7.2 years (range 4.1 to 11.75 years) with a male predominance (5:2), the clinical characters were as follows: 4 cases combined with thoracic and/or abdominal lumps, only lymphonode was involved in 1 case, bone destruction was complicated in 2 cases and 1 case was complicated with central nervous system leukemia. In 2 children, tumor lysis syndrome appeared at early phase. The lactate dehydrogenase level at diagnosis of all patients extremely increased. All patients achieved complete remission after 2 to 4 courses of therapy. Two among them underwent autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. One with primary central nervous system leukemia relapsed before the last course, then the treatment was abandoned. The rest of 6 patients survived with a median follow-up period of 14 months (ranged from 7 to 28 months), and suffered from different degrees of myelosuppression and infection. No one died from serious complications.

CONCLUSIONThe CCCG-BNHL-2015 protocol (risk group R4) shows better curative effect, higher safety and remission rate in childhood mature B-cell lymphoblastic leukemia.