ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The clinical course of gastric lymphoma is heterogeneous and clinical symptoms and some factors have been related to prognosis. OBJECTIVE: The present study aims to identify prognostic factors in gastric diffuse B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosed and treated in different countries. METHODS: A consecutive series of gastric diffuse B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients diagnosed and treated...
BACKGROUND: Real time PCR has become the most common technique to monitor BCR-ABL transcript levels of patients treated with kinase inhibitors. The aim of this study was to evaluate BCR-ABL levels of chronic myeloid leukemia patients treated with imatinib in the chronic phase and correlate the response to therapy and event-free survival. METHODS: BCR-ABL levels were measured in peripheral blood cell samples usi...