Cytogenetic study of bone marrow and blood cells in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma before and after antitumor therapy.

Non-clonal and clonal abnormal cells (hypodiploid, polyploid, and with chromosome aberrations) were detected by the G-method in the bone marrow and blood of the majority of patients with non-Hodgkin lymphomas before therapy. The manifestation of these abnormalities changed individually after treatment. The most incident were clones -22, del(1)(q42-43), del(2)(q-33-35), del(3)(q27), 4q-, and del(6q).