Scientists have long believed that chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells don’t die, and they proliferate at a very slow rate.But researchers now say neither belief is true, and that could alter how scientists think about and treat the disease in the future.The study, which appears in the Feb. 10 online issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, found that CLL cells do die off and they’re reborn at a much faster rate than researchers previously thought.
