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Advances in treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most prevalent type of leukemia, affects mostly elderly CLL patients, and is incurable without allogeneic transplantation. Although classic chemo(immuno)therapy is still the standard of care for patients in need of treatment, this paradigm might change in th...

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Autores principales: Tausch, Eugen, Mertens, Daniel, Stilgenbauer, Stephan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Faculty of 1000 Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4126532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25165564
http://dx.doi.org/10.12703/P6-65
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description Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most prevalent type of leukemia, affects mostly elderly CLL patients, and is incurable without allogeneic transplantation. Although classic chemo(immuno)therapy is still the standard of care for patients in need of treatment, this paradigm might change in the near future with the advent of new therapeutic agents targeting major pathogenic pathways in CLL.
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spelling pubmed-41265322014-08-27 Advances in treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia Tausch, Eugen Mertens, Daniel Stilgenbauer, Stephan F1000Prime Rep Review Article Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most prevalent type of leukemia, affects mostly elderly CLL patients, and is incurable without allogeneic transplantation. Although classic chemo(immuno)therapy is still the standard of care for patients in need of treatment, this paradigm might change in the near future with the advent of new therapeutic agents targeting major pathogenic pathways in CLL. Faculty of 1000 Ltd 2014-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4126532/ /pubmed/25165564 http://dx.doi.org/10.12703/P6-65 Text en © 2014 Faculty of 1000 Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode All F1000Prime Reports articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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