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SUBMITTER: Usmani SZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3674673 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Usmani Saad Z SZ Sawyer Jeffrey J Rosenthal Adam A Cottler-Fox Michele M Epstein Joshua J Yaccoby Shmuel S Sexton Rachael R Hoering Antje A Singh Zeba Z Heuck Christoph J CJ Waheed Sarah S Chauhan Nabeel N Johann Donald D Abdallah Al-Ola AO Muzaffar Jameel J Petty Nathan N Bailey Clyde C Crowley John J van Rhee Frits F Barlogie Bart B
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Lenalidomide has been linked to myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) after autotransplants for myeloma. Total therapy trials (TT; TT2(-/+) thalidomide) and TT3 (TT3a with bortezomib, thalidomide; TT3b with additional lenalidomide) offered the opportunity to examine the contribution of these immune-modulatory agents to MDS-associated cytogenetic abnormalities (MDS-CA) and clinical MDS or acute leukemia ("clinical MDS/AL"). Of 1080 patients with serial cytogenetic studies, MDS-CA occurred in 11% and cli ...[more]