Maria T Papadopoulou, Paraskevi Panagopoulou, Efstathia Paramera, Alexandros Pechlivanis, Christina Virgiliou, Eugenia Papakonstantinou, Maria Palabougiouki, Maria Ioannidou, Eleni Vasileiou, Athanasios Tragiannidis, Evangelos Papakonstantinou, Georgios Theodoridis, Emmanuel Hatzipantelis, Athanasios Evangeliou
INTRODUCTION: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most prevalent childhood malignancy. Despite high cure rates, several questions remain regarding predisposition, response to treatment, and prognosis of the disease. The role of intermediary metabolism in the individualized mechanistic pathways of the disease is unclear. We have hypothesized that children with any (sub)type of ALL have a distinct metabolomic fingerprint at diagnosis when compared: (i) to a control group; (ii) to children with a different (sub)type of ALL; (iii) to the end of the induction treatment...
March 24, 2024: Diagnostics