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Research Article

Overcoming stroma-mediated treatment resistance in chronic lymphocytic leukemia through BCL-2 inhibition

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Pages 1823-1825 | Received 27 Mar 2013, Accepted 06 Apr 2013, Published online: 29 May 2013

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