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Differences between responsive and intractable chronic lymphocytic leukemia
1Research Service, VA Hospital, Hines, IL 60141.
Medical Hypotheses
|February 1, 1990
Abstract:
About 19-26% of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) have intractable disease resistant to chemotherapy, have a relatively short median survival time and are responsive to splenectomy. Lymphocytes from patients with intractable CLL are resistant in vitro to X-irradiation and to colchicine. Responsive CLL is an accumulative disease while intractable CLL is a proliferative disease.

