Risk-based management of myelodysplastic syndrome

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-54

  Steensma, David P ^a   Tefferi, Ayalew ^b  

^a Department of Medicine and Oncology ^*

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; AMG 531; AMIFOSTINE; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; AZACITIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTARABINE; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR AGONIST; DEFERASIROX; DEFEROXAMINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; ELTROMBOPAG; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMOPOIETIC GROWTH FACTOR; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LENALIDOMIDE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 11; RETINOIC ACID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; VORINOSTAT;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANEMIA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHRONIC MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOPENIA; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; IRON OVERLOAD; LEUKEMOID REACTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUROPATHY; NEUTROPENIA; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; PROGNOSIS; QT PROLONGATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SERUM SICKNESS; SIDEROBLASTIC ANEMIA; SPLEEN RUPTURE; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TERATOGENICITY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ANEMIA, SIDEROBLASTIC; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; AZACITIDINE; BENZOIC ACIDS; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTERLEUKIN-11; IRON CHELATING AGENTS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOMONOCYTIC, CHRONIC; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PROGNOSIS; RISK; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; THALIDOMIDE; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 33846990899     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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