Abstract:Although current treatments can induce clinically complete remissions in a high proportion of patients with mature B-cell disorders (MBCD), most of them actually relapse, because of the persistence of residual tumour cells which are undetectable using conventional diagnostic procedures. Qualitative polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) based methods are increasingly used for minimal residual disease (MRD) detection, and provide useful prognostic information. In recent years these assays have been integrated by relia… Show more
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