Abstract:BACKGROUND: Current evidence supports the existence of circulating clonal B cells in Multiple Myeloma (MM). However, attempts to enumerate and phenotypically characterise them have so far provided inconsistent results. Most investigators have studied unselected peripheral blood (PB) mononuclear cells, among which the clonal ones make only a small minority. Moreover, in most cases, numerical chromosomal changes were employed as a clonal marker, but aneuploidy is considered a late event in myelomagenesis. To ove… Show more
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