Most patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia (all) are reported to have acquired chromosomal abnormalities in their leukemic bone marrow cells. Many established chromosome rearrangements have been described, and their associations with specific clinical, biologic, and prognostic features are well defined. However, approximately 30% of pediatric and 50% of adult patients with all do not have cy...

Marrow cells from 36 patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) (13 refractory anemia [RA], 14 refractory anemia with excess of blasts [RAEB], 9 RAEB in transformation [RAEB-T]) were evaluated for their in vitro proliferative and differentiative responsiveness to recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) or granulocyte-monocyte CSF (GM-CSF). GM-CSF exerted a stronger pr...

The objective of this study was to design DNA probe sets that enable the detection of chromosome aberrations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) by interphase cytogenetics using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and to compare the results of interphase cytogenetics with those of conventional chromosome banding analysis. One hundred five consecutive patients with adult AML entered on a multi...

The significance of flow cytometry indicating myelodysplasia without proof of myelodysplasia by cytomorphology remains to be clarified. We evaluated follow-up analyses in 142 patients analyzed in parallel by flow cytometry, cytomorphology and cytogenetics for suspected myelodysplasia without proof of myelodysplasia by cytomorphology. At initial assessment, flow cytometry indicated myelodysplasi...

Compared with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), conventional metaphase cytogenetics play only a minor prognostic role in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) so far, due to technical problems resulting from limited proliferation of CLL cells in vitro. Here, we present a simple method for in vitro stimulation of CLL cells that overcomes this limitation. In our unselected patient populatio...

The past 100 years represent almost the entire history of the recognition of the role of genetics in human cancer. The purpose of this work is to: 1) review that history; 2) explore the techniques that have brought cancer genetics to its present state of knowledge; and 3) to provide preliminary data on how cytogenetics, fluorescence in situ-hybridization (FISH) and molecular techniques contribu...

The establishment of human diploid chromosome number (Tjio and Levan, 1956), have led to the foundations of human cytogenetics. Since then, due to the rapid developments of new techniques for chromosome analysis, many other chromosome disorders were recognized. The introduction of banding techniques, yielding a highly reproducible banding pattern, allowed the reliable identification of every si...