Clinical value of PCR in diagnosis and follow-up of leukaemia and lymphoma: report of the third Workshop of the Molecular Biology/BMT study group.

The proceedings of the third workshop of the molecular biology/bone marrow transplantation (BMT) study group held in January 1991 in Verona, Italy. This workshop was convened to review progress in the application of molecular techniques to the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) as well as other haematomogic malignancies. The results of polymerase chainreaction studies in 157 CML patients 1-90 months post BMT suggest that leukaemia is frequently detectable for the first 12 months but rarely detected thereafter except in patients known to have a high risk of relapse