Monosomy 20: a nonrandom finding in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Genes Chromosomes Cancer

ICRF Department of Medical Oncology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, England.

Published: September 1990

We describe four cases of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia with monosomy 20 as the sole cytogenetic abnormality. These cases represent 3.4% of cytogenetically abnormal childhood ALL studied in our institute at diagnosis. The patients presented at similar age, ranging from 31 to 36 months. All four patients remain in first remission with survival time being at least 20 months from the time of diagnosis.

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