ESSENTIAL HAEMATOLOGY

The Aetiology and Genetics of Haematological Malignancies

The Aetiology and Genetics of Haematological Malignancies

Summary

Hematologic neoplasms are a heterogeneous group of malignancies affecting the blood, the bone marrow and lymph nodes and, as the three systems are connected by the immune system, a hematologic malignancy involving one affect the other two. The most common causes of these disorders are rearrangements in chromosomes, which are not often, associated with tumors solids. This leads to a unique approach to the diagnosis and treatment of hematologic malignancies.

Although these diseases are form of cancer, usually are not handled by oncologists but specialists in hematology, with the ...