| Autor: |
Singer, JW, Arlin, ZA, Najfeld, V, Adamson, JW, Kempin, SJ, Clarkson, BD, Fialkow, PJ |
| Zdroj: |
Blood; September 1980, Vol. 56 Issue: 3 p356-360, 5p |
| Abstrakt: |
After intensive chemotherapy, marrow cells of some patients with Philadelphia chromosome (Ph1) positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) become partially or completely Ph1-negative. However, without a second marker for the neoplastic clone, it could not be determined if these Ph1-negative cells arose from normal progenitors or were still members of an abnormal clone. In the present study, a patient with Ph1- positive CML, also heterozygous for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), was studied before and after intensive chemotherapy. Prior to treatment only G6PD type B was detected in the patient's red cells, platelets, and granulocytes, and all unstimulated marrow metaphases had Ph1. After four cycles of chemotherapy, 76% of marrow cells were Ph1- negative, and approximately 80% of the granulocytes were nonclonal by G6PD analysis. Thus, the frequency of nonclonal cells by G6PD analysis correlated closely with that of the Ph1-negative cells. The data indicate that intensive chemotherapy can restore nonclonal and presumably non-neoplastic hematopoiesis in CML. |
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