There's risk, and then there's risk: The latest clinical prognostic risk stratification models in myelodysplastic syndromes

Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 351-360

  Zeidan, Amer M ^a   Komrokji, Rami S ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

FAB; IPSS; MDS; Myelodysplastic syndrome; Predictive biomarkers; Prognosis; Prognostic schemes; Prognostic scoring systems; Risk stratification; WHO

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CYTOGENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; ERYTHROCYTE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL PROGNOSTIC SCORING SYSTEM; KARYOTYPE; KARYOTYPING; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PATIENT COUNSELING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH EXCESS BLASTS; REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH EXCESS BLASTS IN TRANSFORMATION; SOMATIC MUTATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84890560134     PISSN: 15588211     EISSN: 1558822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11899-013-0172-3     Document Type: Article

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