Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Research in the area of acute myeloid leukemia reported from C. Plesa and colleagues
Published in Genetics and Environmental Law Weekly, March 29th, 2008
"The poor prognosis for elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) raises questions regarding the benefit of treating them with intensive chemotherapy. The impact of initial characteristics on prognosis has been addressed previously in elderly patients; however, very few data are available regarding the prognostic value of immunophenotypic characteristics in this setting," scientists writing in the journal Cancer report.
"The authors investigated expression of the membrane antigens CD13, CD15, CD33, and CD34 by flow cytometry in elderly patients with newly diagnosed AML and analyzed whether these parameters had clinical or prognostic relevance to help...
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