A 73-Year-Old Man Comes to the Office for Follow-Up

question 23

Multiple Choice

A 73-year-old man comes to the office for follow-up.  He was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) 3 years ago when routine laboratory testing revealed a markedly elevated leukocyte count.  He feels well.  On examination, he has stable lymphadenopathy.  He has been reading about management options should his CLL progress and inquires about an experimental drug that selectively binds malignant lymphocytes.  The drug has been shown to significantly prolong survival in patients with stage 3 and 4 CLL, without curing the malignancy.  If this new drug were widely used, what changes would be expected in the number of incident and prevalent cases of CLL?

• A)The number of incident cases will decrease, the number of prevalent cases will decrease
• B)The number of incident cases will increase, the number of prevalent cases will not change
• C)The number of incident cases will decrease, the number of prevalent cases will increase
• D)The number of incident cases will not change, the number of prevalent cases will increase
• E)The number of incident cases will not change, the number of prevalent cases will not change

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