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Refractory disease

A refractory disease is a disease that resists treatment, especially an individual case that resists treatment more than is normal for the specific disease in question.

In CLL, patients can become refractory to a number of parts of a single treatment, like FCR...the common ones are fludarabine refractory and/or rituximab refractory...

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