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Nonclonal serum immunoglobulin free light chains to predict overall survival

Name: Nonclonal serum immunoglobulin free light chains to predict overall survival
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Description: S. Vincent Rajkumar, M.D., reviews his Olmsted County population-based study investigating the detection of high polyclonal free light chain levels as a predictor of mortality outcomes across multiple conditions.

S. Vincent Rajkumar, M.D., professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, illuminates the results of an article appearing in the June 2012 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings of an Olmsted County population-based study where detection of high polyclonal free light chain levels can predict mortality outcomes across multiple conditions.

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