Characterization of treatment and outcomes in a population-based cohort of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia referred for cytogenetic testing in British Columbia, Canada
2017
Abstract This study evaluates outcomes in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) based on first-line therapy in a large consecutive population-based cohort of 669 patients with fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) data in British Columbia, Canada during the period when chemoimmunotherapy was standard first-line treatment. When analyzed as a time-dependent variable, patients who required treatment (n = 336) had a 4.7 times higher hazard of death than patients who did not (95% confidence interval 2.8–7.9, P
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