Initial treatment of CLL: Integrating biology and functional status

Blood

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 463-470

  Jain, Nitin ^a   O'Brien, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; BENDAMUSTINE; CHLORAMBUCIL; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUDARABINE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IBRUTINIB; IDELALISIB; LENALIDOMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MITOXANTRONE; OBINUTUZUMAB; OFATUMUMAB; PENTOSTATIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE DELTA; RITUXIMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER REGRESSION; CHEMOIMMUNOTHERAPY; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COLITIS; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; CYTOPENIA; DIARRHEA; DIVERTICULITIS; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; IGHV GENE; INFECTION; INFUSION RELATED REACTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASH; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TP53 GENE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LYSIS SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL;

AGE FACTORS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL;

EID: 84937777827     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2015-04-585067     Document Type: Review

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