Table 1.
Characteristics of Diagnostic Cases
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| No. of specimens | 204 |
| No. of individual FISH tests (probes or probe sets) | 791 |
| Patient age, median (range), y | 63 (19-85) |
| No. of men/women (ratio) | 124/80 (1.5) |
| Diagnosis, No. (%) | |
| AML RCA | 37 (18.1)a |
| AML NOS | 88 (43.1) |
| AML MRC | 67 (32.8) |
| tAML | 11 (5.4) |
| MPAL | 1 (0.5) |
AML MRC, acute myeloid leukemia with myelodysplasia-related changes; AML NOS, acute myeloid leukemia not otherwise specified; AML RCA, acute myeloid leukemia with recurrent cytogenetic abnormalities; FISH, fluorescence in situ hybridization; MPAL, mixed-phenotype acute leukemia; tAML, therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia.
aCytogenetic findings in AML RCA cases: t(8;21) in three (1%), inv(16) in 12 (6%), t(15;17) in 14 (7%), KMT2A in five (2.5%), t(6;9) in one (0.5%), inv(3) in two (1%).