Meanings of acute leukaemias in English

Immunohistochemistry of acute leukaemias in bone-marrow paraffin sections is commonly thought to be useless because of the poor preservation of many lineage-related markers.

But they found "notable differences in survival in patients with acute leukaemias", they said in the study published in the Lancet Oncology medical journal.

We correlated the impact of FLT3 mutations and its expression with age, WHO 2008 classification and treatment outcome in 531 childhood acute leukaemias.

The study underlined the relationship between the development of secondary acute leukaemias with 11q23 rearrangement and previous chemotherapy with topisomerase II inhibitor agents.