作者: C Pepper , A G S Buggins , C H Jones , E J Walsby , F Forconi
DOI: 10.1038/LEU.2014.308
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摘要: The majority of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients are diagnosed with early-stage disease but the currently used prognostic tools appear to be less informative in this group patients.1 This is especially problematic for mutated immunoglobulin genes (M-CLL) as they have a more diverse clinical course when compared unmutated (U-CLL).1, 2, 3, 4 Given emergence promising targeted, toxic, therapeutics CLL,5, 6 there an increased need identify who might benefit from early treatment these new agents.