About 40 percent of patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (LR-MDS) die of MDS within five years, according to a study published online Nov. 6 in the British Journal of Haematology.
IPSS-M improved prognostic discrimination across all clinical end points with respect to IPSS-R (concordance was 0.81 v 0.74 for overall survival and 0.89 v 0.76 for leukemia-free survival, ...
Successful Management of Neutropenic Sepsis Is Key to Better Survival of Patients With Blood Cancer in Sri Lanka: Real-World Data From the Resource-Limited Setting Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) ...
Racial disparities are known to occur with many diseases, including numerous cancers, with Black individuals having lower survival rates than other racial/ethnic groups. However, there have not been ...
Younger patients with relapsed MDS may benefit from DLI post-stem cell transplant, improving overall survival rates. DLI is associated with graft-versus-host disease, but its impact on prognosis is ...
Bexmarilimab and Vidaza achieved high response rates in higher-risk myelodysplastic syndrome, meeting the phase 2 BEXMAB trial's primary endpoint. The treatment demonstrated a 63% objective response ...
Characteristics including Ogata score and phenotypic aberrancies may correlate with mutational patterns that are predictive of treatment response in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome. The ...
A new report found only about 2.8% of people with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) have JAK2 mutations. A new report is shining a light on an uncommon—but potentially meaningful—characteristic of some ...