title: Bone marrow mononuclear cell thymidine uptake in chronic B-lymphocytic leukaemia. Relation to prognosis.
abstract: The uptake of tritium-labelled thymidine in bone marrow mononuclear cells from 22 untreated patients with Rai stage 0-II chronic B-lymphocytic leukaemia was analysed in 4-d in vitro cultures. The thymidine uptakes showed a great interindividual variability; the counts per min ranged from 1100 to 80 000 (mean 26 360 +/- 21 800 cpm). Bone marrow cells from patients who needed treatment within 1 yr from diagnosis had a lower thymidine uptake than those from patients who were untreated for more than 2 yr (7 820 +/- 7 420 and 34 300 +/- 23 200 cpm, respectively, p less than 0.001). Patients with low uptake cells had poorer prognosis than those with high uptake cells, both regarding survival (5-yr probability: 0.6 and 1.0, respectively; p less than 0.03) and therapy-free survival (5-yr probability: 0.36 and 1.0, respectively; p less than 0.02).
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000378:metabolism; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009000:Monocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D013936:Thymidine / Q000378:metabolism*; D014316:Tritium
chemical_list: D014316:Tritium; D013936:Thymidine