Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 3, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Kipps, Thomas J ^a   Stevenson, Freda K ^b   Wu, Catherine J ^c   Croce, Carlo M ^d   Packham, Graham ^b   Wierda, William G ^e   O'Brien, Susan ^f   Gribben, John ^f   Rai, Kanti ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^f QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g Northwell Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CHLORAMBUCIL; DUVELISIB; IBRUTINIB; IDELALISIB; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; MICRORNA; OFATUMUMAB; PROTEIN BCL 2; VENETOCLAX;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EPIGENETICS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENE MUTATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; METASTASIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RICHTER SYNDROME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC MUTATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR LYSIS SYNDROME; GENETICS;

HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL;

EID: 85009999724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2016.96     Document Type: Article

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