CLL

Question 1

What are the big 3 of CLL?

Answer 1

Adults, long course, indolent but incurable.

Question 2

Name the unique cell marker found on B cell of CLL patients

Answer 2

CD5+

Question 3

What are 2 later effects of CLL (fully progressed into disease)?

Answer 3

organ inflitration

infection

Question 4

Prognosis for CLL includes a life span of about this many years and death is often from this complication?

Answer 4

9 years

infection

Question 5

Name some typical B cell markers

Answer 5

CD19

CD20

Question 6

A patient with CLL will often have these abnormal lab results.

Answer 6

high WBC
lack B lymphocytes
hypogammaglobunemia

Question 7

A unique finding in term of the spleen and lymph nodes in Hairy Cell Leukemia

Answer 7

Splenamegaoly but no lymphadenopathy

Question 8

Describe a typical Hairy Cell patient

Answer 8

Male, older than 40, monocytopneia

Question 9

Standard treament and prognosis for Hairy Cell Leukemia?

Answer 9

Chemotheapy, often live 10 years +

Question 10

What makes prolympocytic leukemia particularly dangerous?

Answer 10

It is very aggressive

Question 11

This type of leukemia is of the T cell lineage?

Answer 11

Large Granulated Lymphocytic Leukemia

Question 12

Neutropenia is a common symtpom of this type of CLL

Answer 12

Large Granulated Lymphocytic Leukemia