BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown increased familial risk for chronic lymphocytic leukemia. In the most comprehensive study to date, we evaluated risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and lymphoproliferative disorders among first-degree relatives of chronic lymphocytic leukemia cases compared to first-degree relatives of controls. DESIGN AND METHODS Population-based registry data from Swe...

Abstract Stereotyped B-cell receptors (BCR) are frequent in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). In cell culture and mouse models of CLL, immunogenic epitopes these BCRs were shown to trigger specific T-cell responses control development. These results suggest vaccination autologous BCR-derived peptides as a novel therapy for CLL. See related article by Rovida et al., p. 729

Background:Leukemia is cancer of blood and bone marrow cells. In general, there are four types of leukemia: chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).  Fractal geometry can be introduced as one of the effective ways to detect this type of cancer. In this study, with introduc...

Chronic antigen-stimulation has been recurrently involved in the earlier stages of monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and other B-cell chronic lymphoproliferative disorders. The expansion of two or more B-cell clones has frequently been reported in individuals with these conditions; potentially, such coexisting clones have a greater probability of interaction with com...

background: mature t/ nk-cell neoplasms are a rare group of disorders and their presentation as leukemia is even rarer. most of the previous studies have focused on mature b-cell lineage leukemias and there is a paucity of data on mature t/nk-cell lineage leukemias. we, therefore, planned this study to analyze their spectrum, frequency, morphology and immunophenotypic features. methods: all cas...

chronic lymphocytic leukemia (cll) and chronic myeloid leukemia (cml) are the most common leukemias of the elderly (>43 year). however, the sequential occurrence of cml followed by cll in the same patient is extremely rare. in our report, a 52-year-old female was diagnosed with cll (type of bone marrow (bm) infiltration was nodular and interstitial) and was treated with chlorambucil. 64 months ...

Monoclonal B-Cell Lymphocytosis (MBL) is part of the mature B-cell neoplasms despite actually being a pre-neoplastic condition [1], this entity, largely unstudied, affects more than 5-10% older adults age 40 and incidence increases with aging [2,3], MBL widely associated as one main risk factors for developing Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)/Small Cell Lymphoma (SLL), since studies Prospecti...

BACKGROUND Optimal lymphocyte parameters and thresholds for the diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia have been proposed by The National Cancer Institute sponsored Working Group and recently updated by the International Workshop on chronic lymphocytic leukemia. However, it is not clear how these criteria apply to patient management in daily clinical practice and whether the lymphocyte thres...

Purpose: To review the recent major advances in the molecular and cell biology of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL). Methods: Weanalyzed thenatureofmalignantB-CLLB cells and their interactions with the microenvironment. Results: B-CLL is a malignancy of a mantle zonebased subpopulation of anergic, self-reactive, activated CD51 B cells devoted to the production of polyreactive natural ...

BACKGROUND Chronic lymphocytic leukemia and chronic myeloid leukemia are the most common types of adult leukemia. However, it is rare for the same patient to suffer from both. Richter's transformation to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is frequently observed in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Purine analog therapy and the presence of trisomy 12, and CCND1 gene rearrangement have been linked to incr...