Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is the most common leukaemia in the Western world. It is also the prototype of B-cell chronic lymphoid malignancies and of their ramifications within the fields of hematology, immunology and oncology. For a long ti
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Editors R. W. Compans, Atlanta/Georgia M. D. Cooper, Birmingham/Alabama T. Honjo, Kyoto · H. Koprowski, Philadelphia/Pennsylvania F. Melchers, Basel · M. B. A. Oldstone, La Jolla/California S. Olsnes, Oslo · M. Potter, Bethesda/Maryland P. K. Vogt, La Jolla/California · H. Wagner, Munich
F. Caligaris-Cappio and R. Dalla-Favera (Eds.)
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia With 35 Figures and 5 Tables
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Federico Caligaris-Cappio Department of Oncology IRCCS San Raffaele Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Via Olgettina 60 20132 Milan Italy e-mail: [email protected] Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD Institute of Genetics Columbia University 1150 St. Nicolas Avenue New York, NY 10032 USA e-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is the most common leukaemia in the Western world. It is also the prototype of B cell chronic lymphoid malignancies. For a long time the Cinderella of lymphoid malignancies, CLL has now become the focus of major interest, and an increasing number of investigators from different areas including genetics, molecular biology and basic and applied immunology are becoming actively engaged in the investigation of CLL. Clinicians are considering CLL as a very interesting target of many projects that aim at translating the exciting developments of basic science into effective new approaches to the patient. Many re
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