title: Chronic myeloid leukemia.
abstract: Chronic myeloid leukemia is a clonal myeloproliferative disorder of a pluripotent stem cell with a specific cytogenetic abnormality, the Philadelphia chromosome, involving myeloid, erythroid, megakaryocytic, B lymphoid, and sometimes T lymphoid cells but not marrow fibroblasts. Advances in cell biology and molecular genetics and a plethora of biochemical, cytogenetic, and molecular data of clinical relevance have yielded much new information regarding this disease. This article reviews the hematologic and clinical aspects of chronic myeloid leukemia; discusses the pertinent aspects of the advances in understanding of the cytogenetics and molecular biology of the disease; and reviews treatment programs employing busulfan, hydroxyurea, interferon, and marrow transplantation, which still are clinically important and relevant despite the development of the exciting new drug imatinib mesylate, a new paradigm for cancer chemotherapy in general.
authors.affiliation: Weill Cornell Medical College, 525 East 68th Street, Box 581, New York, NY 10021, USA. rtsilve@med.cornell.edu
authors.forename: Richard T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Silver
mesh_terms: D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D005260:Female; D016044:Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007372:Interferons / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000235:genetics* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D007372:Interferons; D016044:Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl