The possibility of a healthy progeny in patients after acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Mater Med Pol. 1989 Apr-Jun;21(2):119-21.

Abstract

Five patients, cured from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), four women and one man, have seven healthy children: four girls and three boys. The children were born in the period from 13 to 25 years since the beginning of the disease and 5 to 16 years after cessation of monotherapy. Age of the children varied from 2 to 13 years. In two patients and in their children an inversion or a partial inversion of the heterochromatic region of chromosome 9 was observed.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antineoplastic Agents / toxicity
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Fertility / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / genetics*
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / mortality
  • Reproduction / physiology*

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents