Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia · Countries and centres

Cases by country

Cases by country · GLOBOCAN 2022

Site: Leukaemia (all types) (shared total; subtype split not reported). World: 487,294 new cases a year.

#	Country	New cases	Incidence ASR
1	China	81,946	4.5
2	United States of America	63,144	11.2
3	India	49,883	3.6
4	Germany	15,108	7.4
5	Russian Federation	14,495	6.9
6	Indonesia	13,959	5.2
7	Japan	13,572	5.9
8	France (metropolitan)	13,525	10.1
9	Brazil	11,859	4.7
10	Italy	10,799	8.5

GLOBOCAN reports leukaemia as one site; ALL is the commonest childhood cancer but a minority of adult leukaemia.

Show deaths by countryGLOBOCAN's estimated deaths for the same countries, for readers who want them.

Country-level death counts mix every stage, subtype and year of diagnosis, and reflect access to screening and treatment as much as the disease. Survival differs by stage, subtype and year; the cancer page above leads with what can be done.

#	Country	New cases	Deaths
1	China	81,946	50,074
2	United States of America	63,144	23,460
3	India	49,883	36,871
4	Germany	15,108	9,378
5	Russian Federation	14,495	8,224
6	Indonesia	13,959	10,370
7	Japan	13,572	10,066
8	France (metropolitan)	13,525	7,387
9	Brazil	11,859	8,790
10	Italy	10,799	7,197

World: 487,294 new cases and 305,405 deaths a year (GLOBOCAN 2022).

Expert centres

Where the expertise is

Expert centres

120 centres in 33 countries · 6 with a trial for this cancer on record · second-opinion finder →

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120 centres


Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York · cancer center	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	5,120	95,936	Comprehensive genomic profiling CAR-T cell therapy Digital pathology & AI	#1
Stanford Health Care / Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford · university	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	3,016	50,896	CAR-T cell therapy SBRT / SABR (stereotactic radiotherapy)CyberKnife robotic radiosurgery Stereotactic radiosurgery (Gamma Knife, CyberKnife, linac SRS)+1	#30
National Cancer Institute (NIH) Bethesda, MD · government	United States	none recorded	1	2,852	46,921	TIL therapy TCR-T cell therapy	-
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, TN · cancer center Programme: Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (Total Therapy)	United States	NCI comprehensive	1	636	8,887	Proton therapy Whole-exome & whole-genome sequencing CAR-T cell therapy Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems	-
Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer Navi Mumbai · research institute	India	none recorded	1	175	1,127	CAR-T cell therapy Proton therapy Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems	-
Narayana Health (Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre) Bengaluru · hospital	India	none recorded	1	111	260	CAR-T cell therapy Allogeneic (off-the-shelf) cell therapy	-
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Mumbai · university	India	none recorded	1	80	607	CAR-T cell therapy Point-of-care and decentralised cell manufacturing	-
SIOP Europe (European Society for Paediatric Oncology) Brussels · consortium	Belgium	none recorded	1	7	76	none recorded	-
Institute of Hematology and Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Tianjin · hospital	China	none recorded	0	4,969	62,764	CAR-T cell therapy	-
Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia · cancer center	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	3,148	54,267	CAR-T cell therapy In vivo CAR-T PARP PET Personalised neoantigen (mRNA) vaccines +2	-
Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan · hospital	China	none recorded	0	2,478	31,527	HPV & HBV vaccination Patient-derived organoids Immune checkpoint inhibitors CAR-T cell therapy	-
University College London Hospitals / UCL Cancer Institute London · hospital	United Kingdom	none recorded	0	2,376	28,940	Proton therapy CAR-T cell therapy Liquid biopsy (ctDNA)Whole-exome & whole-genome sequencing +5	-
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Seattle · cancer center	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	2,127	30,449	CAR-T cell therapy Proton therapy Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems	-
Department of Biotechnology, Government of India New Delhi · government	India	none recorded	0	1,631	13,198	CAR-T cell therapy HPV & HBV vaccination Point-of-care and decentralised cell manufacturing	-
City of Hope Duarte, CA · cancer center	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	1,539	19,555	CAR-T cell therapy Biology-guided radiotherapy (RefleXion X1, SCINTIX)	-

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These are the things we can measure; they are not a ranking of quality. Each column is a field on the institution record or a count over what OnCo has linked; a centre that treats many patients with Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia but is thinly recorded here will look small.

Not known: OnCo holds no case-volume or outcome figures for centres, so none are shown. Where a national audit or registry publishes them, the centre's page links to it. Default order: Newsweek rank, then trials for this cancer, then research output.

Seeking a second opinion: ask your oncologist for a referral to a high-volume centre; most accept records and pathology by mail or telehealth. In the US, use the NCI's Find a Cancer Center tool or the nonprofit Cancer Commons, which navigates options for advanced cancers at no cost. The second-opinion finder explains how referral works in your country.

Expert centres named on the types of this cancer

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42 centres are named on one of the types below rather than on Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia itself. Grouped by the type that holds them; the full table for each sits on that type's page.

Philadelphia chromosome-like acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (Ph-like or BCR::ABL1-like ALL)35

Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio A.C. Camargo Cancer Center Aichi Cancer Center Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre / CRUK Scotland Institute Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute Centre Léon Bérard Garvan Institute of Medical Research / Kinghorn Cancer Centre German Cancer Consortium (DKTK)and 27 more →

Standard-risk B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children5

American University of Beirut Medical Center / Naef K. Basile Cancer Institute Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University INCLIVA Biomedical Research Institute / Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia National Cancer Center Hospital East Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami

High-risk acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children (high-risk B-ALL and T-ALL)2

Carilion Clinic / Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

Relapsed and refractory acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children2

Oxford Cancer (Oxford University Hospitals and University of Oxford)Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin