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SUBMITTER: Lilienthal P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7180210 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lilienthal Patrick P Tetschke Manuel M Schalk Enrico E Fischer Thomas T Sager Sebastian S
Frontiers in physiology 20200417
Polycythemia vera (PV) is a slow-growing type of blood cancer, where the production of red blood cells (RBCs) increase considerably. The principal treatment for targeting the symptoms of PV is bloodletting (phlebotomy) at regular intervals based on data derived from blood counts and physician assessments based on experience. Model-based decision support can help to identify optimal and individualized phlebotomy schedules to improve the treatment success and reduce the number of phlebotomies and ...[more]