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Failure matters: unsuccessful cytogenetics and unperformed cytogenetics are associated with a poor prognosis in a population‐based series of acute myeloid leukaemia
8 Sept 2014
Abstract excerpt
Unsuccessful cytogenetics (UC) in patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) treated on different SWOG trials was recently reported to be associated with increased age and dismal outcome. To ascertain whether this holds true also in unselected patients with AML, we retrieved all cytogenetic reports in cases from the population-based Swedish AML Registry. Between 1997 and 2006, 1737 patients below 80 yr of age...
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