Over a 3-year period, 26 patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic granulocytic leukemia were studied cytogenetically in both the chronic and blastic transformation phases of the disease; a further three patients were studied only after blastic transformation. Sixteen were considered to have adequate evidence of the type of transformation and form the basis of the report, where chromosome changes have been correlated with the morphological type of blastic transformation. Seven patients developed a myeloblastic transformation, seven a lymphoblastic transformation, and two an erythroblastic transformation. All patients in the myeloid group acquired one or more of the nonrandom changes associated with CGL blastic transformation, viz. +8,i(17q), +19, +22q-. Patients in the lymphoblastic group acquired structural abnormalities, apparently random in nature and usually in a small percentage of cells. The two patients with erythroblastic transformation developed markedly hyperdiploid cells (greater than 50 chromosomes) with both numerical and structural abnormalities. Patients in the lymphoblastic group appeared to have a slightly better prognosis than the myeloid group, whilst the patients with erythroblastic transformation had a very poor prognosis.
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