Enrica Antonia Martino, Francesca Romana Mauro, Gianluigi Reda, Luca Laurenti, Andrea Visentin, Annamaria Frustaci, Ernesto Vigna, Sara Pepe, Gioacchino Catania, Giacomo Loseto, Roberta Murru, Annalisa Chiarenza, Paolo Sportoletti, Maria Ilaria Del Principe, Roberta Laureana, Marta Coscia, Sara Galimberti, Eleonora Ferretti, Antonella Zucchetto, Riccardo Bomben, Jerry Polesel, Alessandra Tedeschi, Davide Rossi, Livio Trentin, Antonino Neri, Fortunato Morabito, Valter Gattei, Massimo Gentile
Although chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) predominantly affects the elderly, limited data exists about the outcomes of over 80-year-old patients, usually underrepresented in clinical trials. We conducted a multicenter study enrolling 79 consecutive CLL patients ≥80 years at the time of frontline therapy, all treated with ibrutinib. Nearly 48% of cases exhibited unmutated IGHV genes, 32% 17p deletion, and 39.2% TP53 mutations; 63.3% displayed a cumulative illness rating scale (CIRS) > 6...
January 2024: Hematological Oncology