Non-dysplastic myelodysplasia?

Cachia, P. G., Taylor, C., Thompson, P. W., Tennant, G. B., Masters, G., Pettersson, T., Whittaker, J. A., Burnett, Alan Kenneth, Jacobs, A. and Padua, R. A. 1994. Non-dysplastic myelodysplasia? Leukemia 8 (4) , pp. 677-681.

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Abstract

Patients successfully treated for a malignancy with cytotoxic therapy have an increased risk of developing secondary myelodysplasia (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We report a patient in remission from Hodgkin's disease (HD) who remains hematologically normal 4 years after combination chemotherapy, but who has biological and genetic abnormalities characteristic of myelodysplasia. X-inactivation analysis using a 5' phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) probe demonstrates polyclonal hematopoiesis, but cytogenetic analysis reveals a clonal population with a minority of metaphases having a 7q-deletion. NRAS mutations are not detectable 1 year after treatment, but are present in two separate clones (at codons 12 and 15) analyzed by single-stranded conformational polymorphism (SSCP), followed by cloning and sequencing 4 years after treatment. The presence of an activated NRAS with the same codon 12 mutation was independently confirmed by the nude mouse tumorigenicity assay. In vitro peripheral blood granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming units (CFU-GM) have changed from normal to undetectable levels while erythroid burst forming units (BFU-E) were significantly reduced on two occasions during the period of observation. These abnormalities are characteristic of MDS. Continued clinical follow-up will determine whether these evolving genetic and biological abnormalities pre-date the onset of clinical and morphological features of MDS.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Nature Publishing
ISSN:	0887-6924
Related URLs:	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/81522...
Last Modified:	25 Jun 2017 04:43
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/59138

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