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Jennifer Woyach, MD, on CLL/SLL: Pirtobrutinib vs Ibrutinib in Treatment-Naive and Relapsed/Refractory Disease

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Jennifer Woyach, MD, of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses results from the first head-to-head comparison of pirtobrutinib vs ibrutinib in treatment-naive patients and patients with covalent Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitornaive relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) (Abstract 683). 



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