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Treatment resistance in chronic lymphocytic leukemia–the role of the p53 pathway
1 Jan 2009
Abstract excerpt
The importance of studying p53 pathway defects in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has been promoted by the demonstration of the fundamentally different clinical course of patients with 17p deletion. The observation of resistance to chemotherapy and mutation of the remaining TP53 allele explain the clinical presentation of CLL with 17p deletion. Here we review recent evidence that cases with TP53 mutation in...
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