Chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients with a V1-69 gene rearrangement do not have inferior survival with respect to patients that express other unmutated VH genes

Leukemia Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 245-248

  Panovska Stavridis, Irina ^a   Ivanovski, Martin ^a   Siljanovski, Nikola ^a   Cevreska, Lidija ^a   Efremov, Dimitar G ^a  

^a SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY OF SKOPJE   (Macedonia)

Author keywords

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Prognosis; V1 69; VH gene mutation status

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LEUKEMIA, B-CELL, CHRONIC; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845329570     PISSN: 01452126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leukres.2006.05.008     Document Type: Article

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