Addition of rituximab to fludarabine and cyclophosphamide in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial

@article{Hallek2010AdditionOR,
  title={Addition of rituximab to fludarabine and cyclophosphamide in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial},
  author={Michael Hallek and Kirsten Fischer and G{\"u}nter Fingerle-Rowson and A.-M. Fink and Raimonde Busch and Jiř{\'i} Mayer and Manfred Hensel and Georg Hopfinger and Georg Hess and Ulrich von Gr{\"u}nhagen and Manuela A Bergmann and John Vincent Catalano and P. L. Zinzani and Federico caligaris-Cappio and J F Seymour and Alan Berrebi and Ulrich J{\"a}ger and Bruno Cazin and Marek Trněn{\'y} and Anne Westermann and Cm Wendtner and B. Eichhorst and Peter Anton Staib and Andreas B{\"u}hler and Dirk Winkler and Thorsten Zenz and Sebastian B{\"o}ttcher and Matthias Ritgen and Myriam Mendila and Michael Dr. Kneba and H D{\"o}hner and S. Stilgenbauer},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={2010},
  volume={376},
  pages={1164-1174}
}
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