title: Current issues in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
abstract: Is chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) a leukaemia or a preleukaemia? At what stage(s) of haemopoiesis does the transformation occur? Is the immune deficiency the cause or the consequence of CLL? These are the three questions which could be provocative but which also could be useful and we wanted to ask them at the start of this 4th International Workshop on chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, School of Medicine.
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Gale
mesh_terms: D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D015451:Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell / Q000209:etiology*