Table 1.

Patient demographics

Patient characteristica	Value(s)
No. of patients	78
Male/female ratio	53:25
Median age (yr) of males (range)	53 (18–75)
Median age (yr) of females (range)	51 (20–72)
Mean no. of specimens per patient (range)	10.4 (3–32)
No. of AML patients	36
No. of ALL patients	10
No. of patients with other underlying diseasesb	32

^aAML, acute myelogenous leukemia; ALL, acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

^bIncludes chronic lymphoblastic leukemia (CLL) (n = 7), chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) (n = 5), chronic eosinophilic leukemia (CEL) (n = 1), Hodgkin's lymphoma (n = 5), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (n = 5), multiple myeloma (n = 2), myelodysplastic syndrome (n = 3), immunocytoma (n = 1), and myelofibrosis (n = 3).