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Expansion of a CD8(+)PD-1(+) replicative senescence phenotype in early stage CLL patients is associated with inverted CD4:CD8 ratios and disease progression.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Feb 2012
Nunes Claudia, Wong Ryan, Mason Malcolm, Fegan Chris, Man Stephen, Pepper Chris
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PURPOSE: Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) display immune deficiency that is most obvious in advanced stage disease. Here we investigated whether this immune dysfunction plays a pathologic role in the progression of early stage disease patients. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: We carried out eight-color immunophenotyping analysis in a cohort of 110 untreated early stage CLL patients and 22 age-matched healthy...
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