IN THE NEWS: If I Have CLL, Am I at Risk for Fungal Infections?

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Research presented at the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting showed lower rates of CLL patients receiving certain fungal infections if Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitors were part of their treatment plan, versus CLL patients who did not have BTK inhibitors as part of their therapy. Dipenkumar Modi, M.D., hematologist and medical oncologist, and member of the Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant and Hematology Oncology Multidisciplinary Teams at Karmanos, comments on this new data.

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Dipenkumar Modi, M.D.