CD59 and B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia: Regarding the expression of the complement inhibitors, our results performed at baseline failed to highlight significant differences in agreement with some reports [64], but not all [18, 65] and this could be explained in part by different methodological strategies, patient selection and the fact that we have not tested CD55 and CD59 expression in the resistant CLL cells that were not cleared from the blood at completion of therapy [18].