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Bruce M. Camitta is affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions across subfields including rheumatology, public health, environmental and occupational health, hematology, physiology, and surgery.

The scientist's main areas of study involve IgG4-related and inflammatory diseases, acute lymphoblastic leukemia research, sarcoidosis and beryllium toxicity research, histiocytic disorders and treatments, acute myeloid leukemia research, vascular malformations and hemangiomas, and teratomas and epidermoid cysts.

Bruce M. Camitta has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Germ line genetic NBN variation and predisposition to B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children, 2024, Blood
  • KMT2A partner genes in infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia have prognostic significance and correlate with age, white blood cell count, sex, and central nervous system involvement: a Children's Oncology Group P9407 trial study, 2023, Haematologica
  • It Takes a Village, 2021, American Journal of Clinical Pathology
  • Pyrites: An Episcleral Mass, 2021, Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
  • Pyrites: A Perineal Mass, 2021, Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Their work appears frequently in the Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and also in venues such as UNC Libraries, Blood, Haematologica, and the American Journal of Clinical Pathology.

The scientist often collaborates with colleagues such as Sam Lyvannak, Jason A. Jarzembowski, Bun Sereyleak, Korb Sreynich, and Frank G. Keller, reflecting recurring partnerships that contribute to their research output.

Best Publications

  • Improved Survival for Children and Adolescents With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Between 1990 and 2005: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group

    Stephen P. Hunger;Xiaomin Lu;Meenakshi Devidas;Bruce M. Camitta

  • Uniform approach to risk classification and treatment assignment for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

    M Smith;D Arthur;B Camitta;A J Carroll

  • Long-term survival and late deaths after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Late Effects Working Committee of the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry.

    G Socié;J V Stone;J R Wingard;D Weisdorf

  • Clinical significance of minimal residual disease in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia and its relationship to other prognostic factors: a Children's Oncology Group study.

    Michael J. Borowitz;Meenakshi Devidas;Stephen P. Hunger;W. Paul Bowman;W. Paul Bowman

  • Improved Early Event-Free Survival With Imatinib in Philadelphia Chromosome–Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Children's Oncology Group Study

    Kirk R. Schultz;W. Paul Bowman;Alexander Aledo;William B. Slayton

  • Outcome of treatment in children with philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    M Arico;MG Valsecchi;B Camitta;M Schrappe

  • Rearrangement of CRLF2 is associated with mutation of JAK kinases, alteration of IKZF1, Hispanic/Latino ethnicity, and a poor outcome in pediatric B-progenitor acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    Richard C. Harvey;Richard C. Harvey;Charles G. Mullighan;I-Ming Chen;I-Ming Chen;Walker Wharton

  • Severe Aplastic Anemia: A Prospective Study of the Effect of Early Marrow Transplantation on Acute Mortality

    BM Camitta;ED Thomas;DG Nathan;G Santos

  • Risk- and response-based classification of childhood B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a combined analysis of prognostic markers from the Pediatric Oncology Group (POG) and Children's Cancer Group (CCG)

    Kirk R. Schultz;D. Jeanette Pullen;Harland N. Sather;Jonathan J. Shuster

  • A prospective study of androgens and bone marrow transplantation for treatment of severe aplastic anemia

    BM Camitta;ED Thomas;DG Nathan;RP Gale

  • Identification of novel cluster groups in pediatric high-risk B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia with gene expression profiling: correlation with genome-wide DNA copy number alterations, clinical characteristics, and outcome.

    Richard C. Harvey;Richard C. Harvey;Charles G. Mullighan;Xuefei Wang;Kevin K. Dobbin

  • Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation for acute leukemia in relapse or primary induction failure

    Michel Duval;John P. Klein;Wensheng He;Jean Yves Cahn

  • Outcome of treatment in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia with rearrangements of the 11q23 chromosomal region

    Ching-Hon Pui;Paul S Gaynon;James M Boyett;Judith M Chessells

  • Long-term follow-up of imatinib in pediatric Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Children's Oncology Group study AALL0031.

    K. R. Schultz;A. Carroll;N. A. Heerema;W. P. Bowman

  • Increasing Incidence of Adenovirus Disease in Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients

    P Flomenberg;J Babbitt;W R Drobyski;R C Ash

  • Intensive high-dose asparaginase consolidation improves survival for pediatric patients with T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and advanced stage lymphoblastic lymphoma: a Pediatric Oncology Group study.

    M D Amylon;J Shuster;J Pullen;C Berard

  • Recombinant Urate Oxidase for the Prophylaxis or Treatment of Hyperuricemia in Patients With Leukemia or Lymphoma

    Ching-Hon Pui;Hazem H. Mahmoud;Joseph M. Wiley;Gerald M. Woods

  • Aplastic anemia (first of two parts): pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.

    B M Camitta;R Storb;E D Thomas

  • Graft failure following bone marrow transplantation for severe aplastic anemia: risk factors and treatment results.

    RE Champlin;MM Horowitz;DW van Bekkum;BM Camitta

  • Chemotherapy for acute myelogenous leukemia in children and adults: VAPA update

    Howard J. Weinstein;Robert J. Mayer;David S. Rosenthal;Felice S. Coral

Frequent Co-Authors

Meenakshi Devidas
Meenakshi Devidas St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Stephen P. Hunger
Stephen P. Hunger University of Pennsylvania
Naomi J. Winick
Naomi J. Winick The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Jonathan J. Shuster
Jonathan J. Shuster University of Florida
William L. Carroll
William L. Carroll New York University
Michael J. Borowitz
Michael J. Borowitz Johns Hopkins University
Cheryl L. Willman
Cheryl L. Willman University of New Mexico
Andrew J. Carroll
Andrew J. Carroll University of Alabama at Birmingham
Paul S. Gaynon
Paul S. Gaynon University of Southern California
Mei-Jie Zhang
Mei-Jie Zhang Medical College of Wisconsin

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