Academic Journal
Syndromes: Results of Six Cross-sectional Physician Surveys
| العنوان: | Syndromes: Results of Six Cross-sectional Physician Surveys |
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| المؤلفون: | Mikkael A. Sekeres, W. Marieke Schoonen, Hagop Kantarjian, Alan List, Jon Fryzek, Ronald Paquette, Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/100/21/1542.full.pdf. |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| الوصف: | Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a collection of pathologi-cally and cytogenetically distinct bone marrow disorders that have become widely recognized only over the past three decades ( 1 – 4). MDS are characterized by peripheral blood cytopenias, which result in an increased risk of bleeding and infectious complications, and MDS patients have a propensity to develop acute myeloid leukemia (AML), particularly those with more advanced MDS subtypes ( 5 – 8). Treatments for MDS focus on improving blood counts, minimizing the need for blood transfusions, delaying the progression to AML, improving survival, and maximizing patient quality of life ( 9 – 15). The only known curative therapy is bone marrow transplantation ( 16 – 18). The epidemiology of MDS has only recently become clear. MDS is a disease of older adults; the median age of MDS patients at diagnosis is 70 years ( 6, 19). Only a limited number of studies have investigated the descriptive epidemiology of MDS, the majority of |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
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| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.518.490; http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/100/21/1542.full.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.518.490 http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/100/21/1542.full.pdf |
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| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.3E467EE9 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
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