Karla Plevová: For better diagnosis of leukemias and more effective treatment
There are at least four basic categories of leukaemias, but in reality they are divided into a number of subtypes according to different characteristics. They are differentiated by the types of white blood cells affected, the behaviour of the disease and also, for example, gene mutations, which can serve as factors determining prognosis and the choice of the ideal therapeutic treatment. Accurate diagnosis can be time, cost and personnel intensive. At the University Hospital Brno, they have started using the LYNX analytical tool, which is able to detect diagnostic, prognostic and predictive markers for the most common lymphoid malignancies, which affect more than two thousand people a year in the Czech Republic.