The establishment of human diploid chromosome number (Tjio and Levan, 1956), have led to the foundations of human cytogenetics. Since then, due to the rapid developments of new techniques for chromosome analysis, many other chromosome disorders were recognized. The introduction of banding techniques, yielding a highly reproducible banding pattern, allowed the reliable identification of every si...

The past 100 years represent almost the entire history of the recognition of the role of genetics in human cancer. The purpose of this work is to: 1) review that history; 2) explore the techniques that have brought cancer genetics to its present state of knowledge; and 3) to provide preliminary data on how cytogenetics, fluorescence in situ-hybridization (FISH) and molecular techniques contribu...

The 'Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology' (http://www.infobiogen.fr/services/chromcancer ) is a database devoted to chromosome abnormalities in cancer, cancer-prone diseases and genes involved in cancer. Information presented in each page is concise and updated. This database is made for and by: cytogeneticists, molecular biologists, clinicians in oncology and in haem...

The development of various analitic techniques like classical cytogenetics, molecular cytogenetics and molecular methods has greatly improved our ability to understand the basis of cancer development, that can be helpful in hematological diagnostics and treatment. Thus, improving these methods and raising the diagnostic standards remain of key importance in haematooncology. The influence of cyt...

In this lecture two-part lecture we will focus on the importance of cytogenetics and molecular biology in understanding the causation of solid tumors and on how this information is being developed for the clinical laboratory. We will review the recurrent rearrangements in some of the pediatric neoplasms and relate the observed changes to the molecular biology that underlies these cancers. The r...