A patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia developed a large cell lymphoma apparently derived from the same neoplastic B-cell clone (Richter's syndrome). At the same time, mitogen-stimulated proliferation of the patient's circulating leukemic B-cells was no longer inhibited by the regulatory cytokine transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta), suggesting that such loss of inhibition might be contributing to the clinical and biological progression of the disease.
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