Daniel A Arber, Attilio Orazi, Robert Hasserjian, Jürgen Thiele, Michael J Borowitz, Michelle M Le Beau, Clara D Bloomfield, Mario Cazzola, James W Vardiman
The World Health Organization (WHO) classification of tumors of the hematopoietic and lymphoid tissues was last updated in 2008. Since then, there have been numerous advances in the identification of unique biomarkers associated with some myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemias, largely derived from gene expression analysis and next-generation sequencing that can significantly improve the diagnostic criteria as well as the prognostic relevance of entities currently included in the WHO classification and that also suggest new entities that should be added...
May 19, 2016: Blood