Myelodysplasia: New approaches

Current Treatment Options in Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 156-169

  Seiter, Karen ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alemtuzumab; Anti thymocyte globulin; Azacitidine; Clofarabine; Darbepoetin; Decitabine; Deferasirox; DNMT3A; Erythropoietin; Ezatiostat; IPSS; IPSS R; Lenalidomide; LR PSS; Myelodysplastic syndrome; Romiplostim; RPS14; Sapacitabine; SF3B1; SRSF2; Transplantation; WPSS

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; ALEMTUZUMAB; ANTIANEMIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AZACITIDINE; CLOFARABINE; DEFERASIROX; DIGOXIN; EZATIOSTAT; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; LENALIDOMIDE; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN; PLACEBO; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; ROMIPLOSTIM; SAPACITABINE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANEMIA; APNEA; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BONE PAIN; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; COUGHING; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOPENIA; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISORIENTATION; DIZZINESS; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG COMPETITION; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG FEVER; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; ECCHYMOSIS; EDEMA; EPIGENETICS; EPISTAXIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FLANK PAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GENE MUTATION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INFECTION; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INFUSION RELATED REACTION; INJECTION SITE ERYTHEMA; INSOMNIA; INTERNATIONAL PROGNOSTIC SCORING SYSTEM; IRON CHELATION; IRON OVERLOAD; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG DISEASE; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MUSCLE CRAMP; MYALGIA; MYCOSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHARYNGITIS; PROGNOSIS; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PRURITUS; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; RIBOSOME; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RNA SPLICING; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SERUM SICKNESS; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISEASE; STOMATITIS; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; AZACITIDINE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84877787242     PISSN: 15272729     EISSN: 15346277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11864-013-0224-x     Document Type: Article

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