Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia · Countries and centres

Cases by country

Cases by country · GLOBOCAN 2024

Site: Leukaemia (all types) (shared total; subtype split not reported). World: 495,113 new cases a year.

#	Country	New cases	Incidence ASR
1	China	86,478	4.7
2	United States of America	63,566	10.6
3	India	49,542	3.5
4	Indonesia	21,912	7.6
5	Germany	16,011	7.2
6	Japan	14,998	6.5
7	Russian Federation	13,555	6.5
8	France (metropolitan)	13,328	9.6
9	Brazil	12,899	5.0
10	United Kingdom	10,525	8.0

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	86,478	50,779
2	United States of America	63,566	24,193
3	India	49,542	32,731
4	Indonesia	21,912	14,643
5	Germany	16,011	9,528
6	Japan	14,998	10,498
7	Russian Federation	13,555	8,083
8	France (metropolitan)	13,328	6,844
9	Brazil	12,899	8,866
10	United Kingdom	10,525	5,264

World: 495,113 new cases and 292,234 deaths a year (GLOBOCAN 2024).

Expert centres

Where the expertise is

Expert centres

148 centres in 37 countries · 9 with a trial for this cancer on record · second-opinion finder →

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148 centres


Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York · cancer center	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	5,259	96,089	Comprehensive genomic profiling CAR-T cell therapy Digital pathology & AI	#1
Stanford Health Care / Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford · university	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	3,114	49,877	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	2,928	48,367	TIL therapy TCR-T cell therapy	-
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona / IDIBAPS Barcelona · hospital	Spain	none recorded	1	1,520	21,766	CAR-T cell therapy RNA sequencing & expression profiling Whole-exome & whole-genome sequencing Small-molecule kinase inhibitors	-
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, TN · cancer center Programme: Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (Total Therapy)	United States	NCI comprehensive	1	627	8,335	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	166	570	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	71	156	CAR-T cell therapy Allogeneic (off-the-shelf) cell therapy	-
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Mumbai · university	India	none recorded	1	56	515	CAR-T cell therapy Point-of-care and decentralised cell manufacturing	-
SIOP Europe (European Society for Paediatric Oncology) Brussels · consortium	Belgium	none recorded	1	1	79	none recorded	-
Armed Forces Bone Marrow Transplant Centre, Rawalpindi Rawalpindi · hospital	Pakistan	none recorded	1	not matched	-	CAR-T cell therapy Point-of-care and decentralised cell manufacturing	-
Fundação Hemocentro de Ribeirão Preto Ribeirão Preto · research institute	Brazil	none recorded	1	not matched	-	CAR-T cell therapy	-
Institute of Hematology and Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Tianjin · hospital	China	none recorded	0	4,888	64,972	CAR-T cell therapy	-
Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia · cancer center	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	3,093	52,239	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	2,609	30,462	HPV & HBV vaccination Patient-derived organoids Immune checkpoint inhibitors CAR-T cell therapy	-
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Seattle · cancer center	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	2,101	28,721	CAR-T cell therapy Proton therapy Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems	-

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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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48 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)38

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 30 more →

Standard-risk B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children8

American University of Beirut Medical Center / Naef K. Basile Cancer Institute Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Rady Children's Hospital Perth Children's Hospital Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology and Haematology Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University St. Jude Proton Therapy Center 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