Acknowledgments
We are grateful to the patients who agreed to participate in this study. The work was supported by grant NSF(2006)-Pfund-52 from the Board of Regents, Louisiana to F.T.
Potential conflict of interest:
Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available with the full text of this article at www.informahealthcare.com/lal. F.T. has participated to both Advisory Boards and the speakers’ bureaus for Celgene, Spectrum and Genetech.