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How best to manage patients with chronic lymphocytic leuekmia with 17p deletion and/or TP53 mutation?
Leukemia & lymphoma - 1 Mar 2015
Tam Constantine S, Stilgenbauer Stephan
Abstract excerpt
Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) carrying deletion of 17p (17p-) or mutations of TP53 have a uniquely poor prognosis related to increased propensities to progress to symptomatic disease, poor responses to chemo(immuno)therapy and high rates of Richter transformation. Both traditional fludarabine, cyclophosphamide and rituximab (FCR)-based chemoimmunotherapy and alemtuzumab-based regimens are...
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