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Diagnosing and managing advanced chronic myeloid leukemia.
American Society of Clinical Oncology educational book. American Society of Clinical Oncology. Annual Meeting - 1 Jan 2015
Deininger Michael W
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Clinical staging of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) distinguishes between chronic phase (CP-CML), accelerated phase (AP-CML), and blastic phase (BP-CML), reflecting its natural history in the absence of effective therapy. Morphologically, transformation from CP-CML to AP/BP-CML is characterized by a progressive or sudden loss of differentiation. Multiple different somatic mutations have been implicated in...
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