Residual abdominal lymphadenopathy after intensive frontline chemoimmunotherapy is associated with inferior outcome independently of minimal residual disease status in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Affiliations

• ¹ Department I of Internal Medicine, Center for Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Duesseldorf, German CLL Study Group, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. [email protected].
• ² Department I of Internal Medicine, Center for Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Duesseldorf, German CLL Study Group, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ³ Evangelisches Krankenhaus Hamm, Hamm, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Medicine V, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Pneumology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany.
• ⁷ Department II of Internal Medicine, University of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany.
• ⁸ Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
• ⁹ Department of Hematology, Oncology and Rheumatology and José Carreras Center for Immuno and Gene Therapy, Saarland University Medical School, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Department of Hematology, Oncology, Immunology, Palliative Care, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, München Klinik Schwabing, Munich, Germany.
• ¹¹ Oncogeriatric Unit, Department of Geriatric Medicine, St. Marien Hospital, Cologne, Germany.
• ¹² Medical Clinic III, Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany.
• ¹³ Cologne Cluster of Excellence in Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-associated Disease (CECAD), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ¹⁴ Department I of Internal Medicine, Center for Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Duesseldorf, German CLL Study Group, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. [email protected].