PMID: 2488463Apr 1, 1989Paper

The possibility of a healthy progeny in patients after acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Materia Medica Polona. Polish Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy
R Rokicka-MilewskaE Chmurzyńska-Mróz

Abstract

Five patients, cured from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), four women and one man, have seven healthy children: four girls and three boys. The children were born in the period from 13 to 25 years since the beginning of the disease and 5 to 16 years after cessation of monotherapy. Age of the children varied from 2 to 13 years. In two patients and in their children an inversion or a partial inversion of the heterochromatic region of chromosome 9 was observed.

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