The most commonly used staging systems worldwide are Rai and Binet, since both are both simple, inexpensive, and easy to use. Staging systems cannot differentiate individuals who will have progressive ...

Although CLL follows a different staging format than other cancer types, diagnosing the disease properly can open the doors for more effective treatment and management strategies. Diagnosing and ...

Harry P. Erba, M.D., Ph.D.: Ian, is there any other information that you needed about how the diagnosis was made or work-up? It’s leukemia, did he need a bone marrow biopsy to be done? Was there a CT ...

Expert Rev Hematol. 2012;5(1):69-79. The Binet staging system was initially presented at the First International Workshop on CLL and was subsequently published in 1981. [14] Like the Rai staging ...

Leukemia staging is based on the amount of cancerous white blood cells in your body, since leukemia usually does not form tumors like other cancers. Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) uses risk groups ...

Diagnosing chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) involves a series of blood tests, and sometimes a bone marrow biopsy, which shows if you have cancer. The biopsy gives details about the type and subtype ...

Abbreviations: ALC, absolute lymphocyte count; MBL, monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis; CLL, chronic lymphocytic leukemia; FISH, fluorescent in situ hybridization. See Figure 1. A follow-up lymphocyte ...