The strong law of large numbers for u-statistics.

Wassily Hoeffding

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Prognostication according to LDH and AFP levels prior chemotherapy could offer a new approach to stratify patients within the intermediate prognosis cohort. According to our findings, patients with AFP values above 6,000 IU/ml or/and LDH > 3 UNL represent an independent high risk cohort. Our results need to be confirmed in the upcoming IGCCCG reclassification.