Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Molecular Biology of Selected Hemato-oncologic Diseases -- Molecular Biology of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia / Malgorzata Dawidowska, Monika D. Kraszewska, Katarzyna Derwich and Tomasz Szczepanski -- Genetic Mechanisms and Molecular Markers of Neoplastic Transformation in Acute Myeloid Leukemia / Agata A. Filip, Marta Libura, Sebastian Giebel and Olga Haus -- Molecular Pathogenesis of Aggressive B-cell Lymphomas / Przemyslaw Juszczynski and Krzysztof Warzocha -- Molecular Biology and Classification of Multiple Myeloma / Anna Dmoszynska and Norbert Grzasko -- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia / Anton W. Langerak and Yorick Sandberg -- Molecular Biology of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia / Tomasz Sacha, Kajetana Foryciarz and Aleksander B. Skotnicki -- Molecular Biology of Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Francesc Sole -- Myeloproliferative Neoplasms / Andrzej Hellmann, Maria Bieniaszewska, Witold Prejzner and Aleksandra Leszczynska -- Part 2. Diagnostics and Monitoring of Therapy of Hemato-oncologic Deseases -- Flow Cytometric Immunophenotyping as Diagnostic Tool of Hematopoietic Malignancies / Lukasz Sedek, Juan Flores-Montero, Joanna Bulsa, Susana Barrena and Julia Almeida, et al. -- Cytogenetics in Hematology / Olga Haus, Anna Poluha and Katarzyna Skonieczka -- Monitoring of Minimal Residual Disease in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia / Tomasz Szczepanski, Malgorzata Dawidowska and Katarzyna Derwich -- Gene Expression Profiling in Hematologic Malignancies / Przemyslaw Juszczynski, Bjoern Chapuy, Malgorzata Szczepaniak and Krzysztof Warzocha -- Part 3. Molecular Procedures Involved in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation -- Allogeneic Transplantation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Jacek Wachowiak -- Genetic Basis of Donor-Recipient Matching in Allogeneic Transplantation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Jacek Nowak and Jacek Wachowiak -- Chimerism Following Allogeneic Transplantation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Malgorzata Dawidowska, Katarzyna Guz, Ewa Brojer, Jacek Wachowiak and Michal Witt -- Peritransplantation Monitoring of Minimal Residual Disease in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia / Malgorzata Dawidowska, Katarzyna Derwich and Tomasz Szczepanski -- Biobanks of Cellular Material / Wieslaw Wiktor-Jedrzejczak and Elzbieta Urbanowska -- Part 4. Molecular Diagnostic Protocols -- Biobanking of Cellular Material / Anna Poluha and Elzbieta Urbanowska -- Isolation of Mononuclear Cells from Human Blood and Bone Marrow by Density Gradient Centrifugation / Malgorzata Dawidowska -- Molecular Techniques Commonly Used in Hemato-oncology / Monika D. Kraszewska and Ewa Zietkiewicz -- Genetic Methods of HLA Typing / Jacek Nowak, Renata Mika-Witkowska and Elzbieta Graczyk-Pol -- Post-Transplant Chimerism Analysis Through STR-PCR and RQ-PCR / Malgorzata Dawidowska, Katarzyna Guz, Agnieszka Orzinska, Justyna Smolarczyk-Wodzynska and Monika D. Kraszewska, et al. -- Analysis of Minimal Residual Disease with the Use of Rearrangements of Ig/TCR Genes Through RQ-PCR / Malgorzata Dawidowska, Vincent H. J. van der Velden, Michal Witt and Tomasz Szczepanski -- Molecular Diagnostics of Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia / Marta Libura, Agata A. Filip and Olga Haus -- Assessment of the Presence and the Level of BCR-ABL Fusion Gene Expression and Mutational Status in ABL Kinase Domain / Sylwia Czekalska, Magdalena Zawada and Izabela Florek -- Studies of Rearrangements and Somatic Hypermutation of IGHV Genes in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia / Anton W. Langerak, Richard Rosenquist, Paolo Ghia, Chrysoula Belessi and Kostas Stamatopoulos, et al. -- Molecular Biology Methods in the Diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma / Anna Dmoszynska and Sylwia Chocholska -- Molecular Methods in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms / Aleksandra Leszczynska, Witold Prejzner, Maria Bieniaszewska and Andrzej Hellmann -- Informed Consent for Participation in Research Project / Malgorzata Dawidowska and Michal Witt.