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Lymphocyte doubling time in chronic lymphocytic leukemia modern era : a real-life study in 848 unselected patients

Baumann, Tycho ; Moia, Riccardo ; Gaidano, Gianluca ; Delgado, Julio ; Condoluci, Adalgisa ; Villamor, Neus ; Payedimarri, Anil Babu ; Costa, Dolors ; Patriarca, Andrea ; Jiménez-Vicente, Carlos ; Rossi, Davide ; Montserrat, Emili

In: Leukemia, 2021, p. 7 p

The prognostic significance of lymphocyte doubling time (LDT) in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) was identified when the biology of the disease was poorly understood and therapy was not effective. We assessed the clinical and biological significance of LDT in 848 CLL patients in a real-life setting and the context of new biomarkers and effective therapy. A short LDT (≤12 months) was...

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Higher-order connections between stereotyped subsets : implications for improved patient classification in CLL

Agathangelidis, Andreas ; Chatzidimitriou, Anastasia ; Gemenetzi, Katerina ; Giudicelli, Veronique ; Karypidou, Maria ; Plevova, Karla ; Davis, Zadie ; Yan, Xiao-Jie ; Jeromin, Sabine ; Schneider, Christof ; Bredo-Pedersen, Lone ; Tschumper, Renee C. ; Sutton, Lesley-Ann ; Baliakas, Panagiotis ; Scarfò, Lydia ; van Gastel, Ellen J. ; Armand, Marine ; Tausch, Eugen ; Biderman, Bella ; Baer, Constance ; Bagnara, Davide ; Navarro, Alba ; Langlois de Septenville, Anne ; Guido, Valentina ; Mitterbauer-Hohendanner, Gerlinde ; Dimovski, Aleksandar ; Brieghel, Christian ; Lawless, Sarah ; Meggendorfer, Manja ; Braazdilova, Kamila ; Ritgen, Matthias ; Facco, Monica ; Tresoldi, Cristina ; Visentin, Andrea ; Patriarca, Andrea ; Catherwood, Mark ; Bonello, Lisa ; Sudarikov, Andrey ; Vanura, Katrina ; Roumelioti, Maria ; Skuhrova-Francova, Hana ; Moysiadis, Theodoros ; Veronese, Silvio ; Giannopoulos, Krzysztof ; Mansouri, Larry ; Karan-Djurasevic, Teodora ; Sandaltzopoulos, Raphael ; Bödör, Csaba ; Fais, Franco ; Kater, Arnon ; Panovska, Irina ; Rossi, Davide ; Alshemmari, Salem ; Panagiotidis, Panagiotis ; Costeas, Paul ; Espinet Solà, Blanca ; Antic, Darko ; Foroni, Letizia ; Montillo, Marco ; Trentin, Livio ; Stavroyianni, Niki ; Gaidano, Gianluca ; Francia di Celle, Paola ; Niemann, Carsten ; Campo, Elias ; Anagnostopoulos, Achilles ; Pott, Christiane ; Fischer, Kirsten ; Hallek, Michael ; Oscier, David ; Stilgenbauer, Stephan ; Haferlach, Claudia ; Jelinek, Diane ; Chiorazzi, Nicholas ; Pospisilova, Sarka ; Lefranc, Marie-Paule ; Kossida, Sofia ; Langerak, Anton W. ; Belessi, Chrysoula ; Davi, Frederic ; Rosenquist, Richard ; Ghia, Paolo ; Stamatopoulos, Kostas

In: Blood, 2020, vol. 137, no. 10, p. 1365–1376

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is characterized by the existence of subsets of patients with (quasi)identical, stereotyped B cell receptor immunoglobulins (BcR IG). Patients in certain major stereotyped subsets often display remarkably consistent clinicobiological profiles, suggesting that the study of BcR IG stereotypy in CLL has important implications for understanding disease...

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International prognostic score for asymptomatic early-stage chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Condoluci, Adalgisa ; Terzi di Bergamo, Lodovico ; Langerbeins, Petra ; Hoechstetter, Manuela A. ; Herling, Carmen D. ; De Paoli, Lorenzo ; Delgado, Julio ; Rabe, Kari G. ; Gentile, Massimo ; Doubek, Michael ; Mauro, Francesca R. ; Chiodin, Giorgia ; Mattsson, Mattias ; Bahlo, Jasmin ; Cutrona, Giovanna ; Kotaskova, Jana ; Deambrogi, Clara ; Smedby, Karin E. ; Spina, Valeria ; Bruscaggin, Alessio ; Wu, Wei ; Moia, Riccardo ; Bianchi, Elena ; Gerber, Bernhard ; Zucca, Emanuele ; Gillessen, Silke ; Ghielmini, Michele ; Cavalli, Franco ; Stussi, Georg ; Hess, Mark A. ; Baumann, Tycho S. ; Neri, Antonino ; Ferrarini, Manlio ; Rosenquist, Richard ; Forconi, Francesco ; Foà, Robin ; Pospisilova, Sarka ; Morabito, Fortunato ; Stilgenbauer, Stephan ; Döhner, Hartmut ; Parikh, Sameer A. ; Wierda, William G. ; Montserrat, Emili ; Gaidano, Gianluca ; Hallek, Michael ; Rossi, Davide

In: Blood, 2020, vol. 135, no. 21, p. 1859–1869

Most patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are diagnosed with early-stage disease and managed with active surveillance. The individual course of patients with early-stage CLL is heterogeneous, and their probability of needing treatment is hardly anticipated at diagnosis. We aimed at developing an international prognostic score to predict time to first treatment (TTFT) in patients...

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TGFBI modulates tumour hypoxia and promotes breast cancer metastasis

Fico, Flavia ; Santamaria‐Martínez, Albert

In: Molecular Oncology, 2020, vol. 14, no. 12, p. 3198–3210

Breast cancer metastasis is a complex process that depends not only on intrinsic characteristics of metastatic stem cells, but also on the particular microenvironment that supports their growth and modulates the plasticity of the system. In search for microenvironmental factors supporting cancer stem cell (CSC) growth and tumour progression to metastasis, we here investigated the role of the...