Leukaemia cytogenetics / H. Jackson Woodliff.

  • Woodliff, H. Jackson.
Date:
1971
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Credit: Leukaemia cytogenetics / H. Jackson Woodliff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    60 LEUKAEMIA CYTOGENETICS TABLE VI—continued reported (Table VI and Fig. 17); usually two such chromosomes are present in cell lines containing 47 or 48 chromosomes but a variety of other karyotypes have been found. It has been considered by many to carry a bad prognosis with acute transformation either incipient or present and whilst this is general, several cases including one studied by us (Woodliff and Dougan, 1966) have survived for more than a year. An associated prominent peripheral lymphadenopathy noted in several cases (Duvall et al., 1967; Kiossoglou et al, 1965a; Knospe et al., 1967) was not present in our patient. Treatment An ideal treatment would remove all leukaemic cells from the body; existing therapeutic agents, however, do not achieve this