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Genetic susceptibility to chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Seminars in hematology - 1 Oct 2013
Slager Susan L, Caporaso Neil E, de Sanjose Silvia, Goldin Lynn R
Abstract excerpt
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common adult leukemia in the West and is an incurable malignancy. No firmly established evidence exists for environmental risk factors in the etiology of CLL. However, CLL is estimated to have one of the highest familial risks for a hematologic malignancy; this along with other evidence strongly supports an inherited genetic component. In the past 5 years,...
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