title: The relevance of clinical and laboratory data at diagnosis to survival time of chronic granulocytic leukemia patients.
abstract: Clinical and laboratory data were investigated in 80 patients diagnosed during the chronic phase of CGL. Comparison has been made between the group of 24 patients surviving longer than 5 years vs. a group of 56 patients surviving shorter than 5 years. Additionally, a group of 6 patients surviving longer than 10 years was analysed separately. According to our findings the most favourable prognostic factors at diagnosis are: young age, normal hemoglobin level, leukocytosis less than 60 X 10(9)/l, absence of splenomegaly indicating rather a small tumour mass in the body.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001752:Blast Crisis / Q000473:pathology; D001773:Blood Cells / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007951:Leukemia, Myeloid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis