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Revisiting the concept of childhood preleukemia.
Trends in cancer - 1 Nov 2022
Cobaleda Cesar, Vicente-Dueñas Carolina, Ramírez-Orellana Manuel, Sanchez-Garcia Isidro
Abstract excerpt
Preleukemic has been used to describe children with a propensity to develop B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). However, leukemia-predisposing mutations can also be present in differentiated cells unable to transform. We postulate that preleukemia should only be used when such mutations arise in progenitors capable of evolving to B-ALL.
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