The kits REALQUALITY RQ-BCR-ABL p210 ONE-STEP,  has been approved for use in the EU Leukemia/Italian Labnet network. In accordance with the Europe Against Cancer (EAC) Guidelines - Leukemia 2003   Calibrated with “1st World Health Organization (WHO) International Genetic Reference Panel for quantitation of BCR-ABL translocation by RQ-PCR” “IRMM ERM-AD623 BCR-ABL1” (certified plasmid DNA reference) [...]

The number of women in the Netherlands infected with HPV–the virus that can cause cervical cancer–could be twice as high as previously assumed, according to a yet unpublished study by the Jeroen Bosch Hospital, the Volkskrant reports. This means that the costs of the new population screening, which will be implemented next year, may be [...]