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How do you approach small lymphocytic lymphoma that does not have a leukemic phase?

Do you follow treatment guidelines for indolent lymphoma or CLL? How do you get 17p testing on someone with only lymphadenopathy?
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Medical Oncology · UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
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Patients with SLL very often (90-95%) have circulating tumor cells in the blood that are CD19, CD20, CD5, CD23, sig dim by flow consistent with CLL tumor cells. If not in the blood, these same cells evevn more often can be found in the bone marrow. If disease is in either site with nodal involvement...

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