Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a report from the International Workshop on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia updating the National Cancer Institute-Working Group 1996 guidelines
Abstract
Standardized criteria for diagnosis and response assessment are needed to interpret and compare clinical trials and for approval of new therapeutic agents by regulatory agencies. Therefore, a National Cancer Institute-sponsored Working Group (NCI-WG) on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) published guidelines for the design and conduct of clinical trials for patients with CLL in 1988, which were updated in 1996. During the past decade, considerable progress has been achieved in defining new prognostic markers, diagnostic parameters, and treatment options. This prompted the International Workshop on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (IWCLL) to provide updated recommendations for the management of CLL in clinical trials and general practice.
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Subject
STEM-CELL TRANSPLANTATION; QUALITY-OF-LIFE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC-ANEMIA; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; GENE MUTATION STATUS; HEAVY-CHAIN GENE; PHASE-III TRIAL; CLL STUDY-GROUP; CD38 EXPRESSION; ZAP-70 EXPRESSION
Language
eng
License start date
2008-06-15
Citation
2008, pp. 5446 - 5456