Disease progression in patients with multiple myeloma is associated with a concurrent alteration in the expression of both oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes and can be monitored by the oncoprotein phenotype.

Abstract excerpt

The dysregulation of specific oncogenes due to either mutation or activation has previously been reported in a small number of patients with myeloma but the extent of oncogene dysregulation during the course of the disease is not known. The oncoprotein phenotype of plasma cells in 146 bone marrow...

Topics

• Adult
• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Antigens, Surface
• Bone Marrow
• Disease Progression
• Female
• Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
• Genes, Tumor Suppressor
• Humans
• In Situ Hybridization