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Comment
. 2018 Jul;103(7):e329.
doi: 10.3324/haematol.2018.196543.

Immune failure, infection and survival in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Kyle R Crassini  1   2 , O Giles Best  3   2 , Stephen P Mulligan  3   2
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Immune failure, infection and survival in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Kyle R Crassini et al. Haematologica. 2018 Jul.
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Figure 1.
Overall survival Kaplan-Meier curve from the time of assessment of immunoglobulin levels until death or follow up for all included patients. Overall survival Kaplan-Meier curve shown by infection (P<0.001) for the whole study cohort.
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