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[Chronic lymphocytic leukemia : treatment concepts in transition].
Der Internist - 1 Apr 2015
Eichhorst B, Hallek M
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BACKGROUND: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common leukemia in the Western hemisphere and mainly affects elderly patients. No curative treatment is currently available for this disease. TREATMENT: Advanced disease is treated according to the patients' fitness and comorbidity burden as well as according the presence of high risk genetic factors in CLL cells. The detection of del(17p) and/or TP53...
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