chronic lymphadenosis
chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

Two years later, in 1980, he was diagnosed also with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

In 2005, Peters discovered that he was suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

In 2003, Andy announced that he was fighting cancer after being diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

Chromothripsis was first observed whilst sequencing the genome of a chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

A second study found a link between two forms of adult cancer, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and brain cancer, and exposure to power lines.

Abnormal free light chain production has also been reported to be prognostic of a worse outcome in multiple myeloma and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

Hairy cell leukaemia is now regarded as a variant of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and has been grouped with it.

Casper JT: Prognostic features of early chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

Fludarabine phosphate, a purine analogue which has become a mainstay in treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, was another similar development by Montgomery.

In the elderly, lymphoproliferative disorders, including chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and lymphomas, often present with lymphadenopathy and a lymphocytosis.

In in vitro trials bryostatin 1 was able to induce apoptosis in HL-60 chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia never occurs in childhood, and so in children lymphoid leukaemia is equivalent to acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Dighiero G, Hamblin TJ: Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

His most important research discovery was that chronic lymphocytic leukaemia comes in two forms, depending on whether the immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region genes contain somatic mutations.

Steurer M, Pall G, Richards S, et al.: Purine antagonists for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

There was no detectable message in T cells from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (T-CLL) or in the Jurkat T cell line.

This region has been found to be the most commonly affected in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), with deletions of the entire region in more than half of cases.

Orchard JA, Ibbotson RE, Davis Z, et al.: ZAP-70 expression and prognosis in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

Melo JV, Catovsky D, Galton DA: The relationship between chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and prolymphocytic leukaemia.

Montserrat E, Sanchez-Bisono J, Viñolas N, et al.: Lymphocyte doubling time in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: analysis of its prognostic significance.

An analysis of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, colorectal carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma found that all three cancers exhibited aberrant expression profiles for ultraconserved ncRNAs relative to normal cells.

Maddocks-Christianson K, Slager SL, Zent CS, et al.: Risk factors for development of a second lymphoid malignancy in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

P Paterlini, D. Quaglino, A. de Pasquale, G. Cretara, L. Venturoni : Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia associated to multiple myeloma.

He pursued a research career in haematology and immunology, successively becoming an expert in plasma exchange, stem cell transplantation, monoclonal antibody therapy, myelodysplastic syndrome and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.