OBJECTIVES This nested case-control study was based on data in a cohort study of more than 18,000 petroleum distribution workers exposed to gasoline, which contains about 2%-3% benzene. Risks of leukaemia, acute myeloid leukaemia, multiple myeloma, and kidney cancer were examined relative to exposure to gasoline. METHODS For each case, up to five individually matched controls were selected. A...

Aims. The P53 gene is a tumour suppressor, often inactivated by deletion and/or point mutation in malignancies. The incidence of p53 mutation in haematological malignancies varies with malignancy type and cell lineage affected. It is associated with disease progression, poor prognosis and resistance to chemotherapy. The wild-type p53 protein has a short half-life and cannot be detected by immun...

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to review available cohort studies and to estimate quantitatively the association between occupational exposure in plants manufacturing pesticides and leukaemia. METHODS Following a systematic literature search, relative risks were extracted from 14 studies published between 1984 and 2004. Fixed effect analyses were carried out as heterogeneity between stu...

The use of intelligent techniques in medicine has brought a ray of hope in terms of treating leukaemia patients. Personalized treatment uses patient's genetic profile to select a mode of treatment. This process makes use of molecular technology and machine learning, to determine the most suitable approach to treating a leukaemia patient. Until now, no reviews have been published from a computat...

AIMS Because of the observation of an abundance of leukaemia/lymphoma cell microparticles in the bone marrow aspiration sample of a patient with Burkitt's leukaemia at diagnosis, the occurrence of this phenomenon in leukaemia/lymphoma samples with available immune phenotyping data was investigated retrospectively. METHODS Flow cytometric immune phenotyping and spontaneous apoptosis analysis o...