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Persistence of leukaemic ancestors

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The early development of acute leukaemias is assumed for the most part to be clinically silent and transient. But it now seems that ancestral precancerous cells are identifiable and persistent. See Article p.328

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Figure 1: Different routes to acute myeloid leukaemia.

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  1. Nicola E. Potter and Mel Greaves are in the Centre for Evolution and Cancer, The Institute of Cancer Research, London SM2 5NG, UK.,

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