Trends in survival of chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients in Germany and the USA in the first decade of the twenty-first century

Abstract Background Recent population-based studies in the United States of America (USA) and other countries have shown improvements in survival for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) diagnosed in the early twenty-first century. Here, we examine the survival for patients diagnosed wit...

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Main Authors: Dianne Pulte, Felipe A. Castro, Lina Jansen, Sabine Luttmann, Bernd Holleczek, Alice Nennecke, Meike Ressing, Alexander Katalinic, Hermann Brenner, GEKID Cancer Survival Working Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2016-03-01
Series:Journal of Hematology & Oncology
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13045-016-0257-2