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Molecular analysis of loss of CCR4 expression during mogamulizumab monotherapy in an adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma patient

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Approval was obtained from the Nagasaki University Hospital Institutional Review Board for this work.

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  1. Department of Hematology, Atomic Bomb Disease and Hibakusha Medicine Unit, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

    Masataka Taguchi, Jun Taguchi, Tomoko Hata & Yasushi Miyazaki

  2. Department of Hematology, Nagasaki University Hospital, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, 852-8501, Japan

    Yoshitaka Imaizumi, Yasushi Sawayama & Daisuke Imanishi

  3. Central Diagnostic Laboratory of Nagasaki University Hospital, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

    Daisuke Sasaki, Kazuto Tsuruda, Hiroo Hasegawa & Katsunori Yanagihara

  4. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kinki University, Osaka, Japan

    Tomonori Higuchi & Osamu Yoshie

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Taguchi, M., Imaizumi, Y., Sasaki, D. et al. Molecular analysis of loss of CCR4 expression during mogamulizumab monotherapy in an adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma patient. Ann Hematol 94, 693–695 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-014-2239-1

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