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Risk of follicular lymphoma associated with BCL2 translocations in peripheral blood.
Leukemia & lymphoma - 1 Jan 2015
Hirt Carsten, Camargo M Constanza, Yu Kelly J, Hewitt Stephen M, Dölken Gottfried, Rabkin Charles S
Abstract excerpt
Many adults have circulating lymphocytes with the BCL2 gene translocation characteristic of follicular lymphoma. We therefore conducted a nested case-control study of incident lymphomas with peripheral blood obtained a median 4.9 years pre-diagnosis from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial. Overall, 13 of 26 cases of lymphoma and 14 of 47 controls had BCL2 major breakpoint region...
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