Remission is good - relapse is bad

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Editorial

Paul S Gaynon. Haematologica. 2018 Jan.

. 2018 Jan;103(1):4-5.

doi: 10.3324/haematol.2017.182667.

¹ Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA pgaynon@chla.usc.edu.

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Comment on

Predictive value of minimal residual disease in Philadelphia-chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with imatinib in the European intergroup study of post-induction treatment of Philadelphia-chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia, based on immunoglobulin/T-cell receptor and BCR/ABL1 methodologies.
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