Recent studies have generated data demonstrating significant clinical activity of a-interferon therapy in each of six hematological malignancies, chronic myeloid leukaemia, essential thrombocythemia, polycythemia rubra vera, non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, multiple myelomatosis and hairy cell leukaemia.
α-Interferon in hematological malignancies
✍ Scribed by Frank J. Giles; Howard Ozer
- Book ID
- 113404979
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 317 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0960-9822
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