Disease Associations

"Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia with a Secondary Acute Myelogenous Leukemia."

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 11th, 1995

According to an abstract submitted by the author to the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Sciences' Annual Meeting and Clinical Laboratory Exposition, held July 17-22, 1995, in Anaheim, California, "Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are known to have increased risk of developing a second malignancy, presumably because of their defective immune systems. Reported malignancies are usually solid tumors, including melanoma, soft-tissue sarcoma, and colorectal and lung carcinoma. Reportedly, there are not at increased risk for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), despite the sometimes-aggressive use of alkylating agents, which is a recognized risk factor for AML. At the...

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