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Tait D. Shanafelt, MD, on CLL in Younger Patients: Comparing Ibrutinib and Rituximab With FCR

2019 ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition

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Tait D. Shanafelt, MD, of Stanford University, discusses extended follow-up data that show ibrutinib plus rituximab improved clinical outcomes vs the standard therapy of fludarabine/cyclophosphamide/ rituximab in younger patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (Abstract 33).



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