Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in elderly patients: The Philadelphia chromosome may not be a significant adverse prognostic factor

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 716-720

  Onciu, Mihaela ^a   Bueso Ramos, Carlos ^a   Medeiros, L Jeffrey ^a   Ball, Greg ^a   Smith, Terry ^a   Lai, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Elderly; Philadelphia chromosome

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; MALE; MIXED CELL LYMPHOMA; PHILADELPHIA 1 CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BONE MARROW; CYTOGENETICS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUSION PROTEINS, BCR-ABL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHILADELPHIA CHROMOSOME; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036239539     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/P7QG-0993-WRAJ-VTNA     Document Type: Article

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