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SUBMITTER: Cherry M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3818458 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cherry Mohamad M Cardenas-Turanzas Marylou M Pham Hannah H Kantarjian Hagop H Cortes Jorge J Pierce Sherry S Zhou Lingsha L Verstovsek Srdan S
Leukemia research 20130814 11
The clinical relevance of prior malignancy (PM) in patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET) and polycythemia vera (PV) is largely unknown. We retrospectively evaluated 437 patients (ET, n=263; PV, n=174) treated at MD Anderson between 1960 and 2010. Forty-four patients had PM (ET, 10%; PV, 11%), with median time to diagnosis of 66 months. PM was not associated with abnormal cytogenetics, JAK2-mutation frequency, blood-cell counts or progression to acute leukemia or myelofibrosis. In multivar ...[more]