Chronic lymphocytic leukemia: an updated review.

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PURPOSETo review recent advances in the pathogenesis, biology, diagnosis, and management of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).DESIGNA literature search restricted to English-language articles, abstracts, book chapters, and reports published between 1975 and 1993 was conducted both electronically using MEDLINE and CANCERLIT and manually using the bibliographies of the electronically retrieved data base. Of approximately 1,000 publications identified for analysis, 233 were selected as representative of important advances in CLL.RESULTSThe last 10 years have witnessed renewed interest in the biology and treatment of CLL, a disease long viewed by clinicians as following an indolent course and perceived by investigators as uninspiring. This interest, based on advances in understanding the lineage and biology of CLL and on the advent of new and more efficacious chemotherapeutic agents, has led to improvements in patient survival and, for the first time, to complete remissions (CRs) in large subsets of patients...

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