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Dr Sharman on Management of CLL in Elderly

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Dr Sharman has just shared some of his slides from his presentation to the American Society of Clinical Oncology on Management of CLL in Elderly/Frail patients on his blog:

cll-nhl.com/2014/06/managem...

Just clicking through them will give you an appreciation of how the newer drugs are improving the outcome for older patients, including when partnered with Chlorambucil, which has been around for a long time.

He previously posted about the ASCO papers that he was involved in here:

cll-nhl.com/2014/05/another...

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