Validation of a biological score to predict response in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients treated front-line with bendamustine and rituximab

Affiliations

• ¹ Hematology Unit, Department of Onco-Hematology, A.O. of Cosenza, Cosenza, Italy. massim.gentile@tiscali.it.
• ² Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
• ³ Hematology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico and University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
• ⁴ Hematology, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Hematology, 'Sapienza' University, Rome, Italy.
• ⁵ Department of Haematology and Oncology, University Medical Centre Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
• ⁶ University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
• ⁷ Department of Hematology, Catholic University Hospital "A. Gemelli", Rome, Italy.
• ⁸ Ematologia, Dipartimento di Biomedicina e Prevenzione, Università degli studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy.
• ⁹ Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland and Institute of Oncology Research, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
• ¹⁰ Unità di Ematologia, Ospedale Vito Fazzi, Lecce, Italy.
• ¹¹ Department of Oncology and Haematology, Pugliese-Ciaccio Hospital, Catanzaro, Italy.
• ¹² Department of Hematology, Ospedale Santo Spirito, Pescara, Italy.
• ¹³ Division of Haematology, University of Torino, A.O. Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Torino, Italy.
• ¹⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Division of Haematology, University of Catania and Ferrarotto Hospital, Catania, Italy.
• ¹⁵ Ematologia-Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Policlinico Consorziale di Bari, Bari, Italy.
• ¹⁶ UO Molecular Pathology, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino IRCCS, Genova, Italy.
• ¹⁷ Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ¹⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ¹⁹ Hematology Unit, Department of Onco-Hematology, A.O. of Cosenza, Cosenza, Italy.
• ²⁰ Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Instituto di Biomedicina ed Immunologia Molecolare, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
• ²¹ Biotechnology Research Unit, Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale di Cosenza, Aprigliano, Italy.
• ²² Department of Hematology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• ²³ Hematology Institute, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel.
• ²⁴ Hematology Unit, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
• ²⁵ Division of Haematology, Department of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy.
• ²⁶ Direzione Scientifica Ospedale Policlinico San Martino IRCCS, Genova, Italy.
• ²⁷ Department of Hematology, Hadassah University, Hospital and Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.