Philadelphia chromosome-negative classical myeloproliferative neoplasms: revised management recommendations from European LeukemiaNet

Leukemia - Tập 32 Số 5 - Trang 1057-1069 - 2018
Tiziano Barbui1, Ayalew Tefferi2, Alessandro M. Vannucchi3, Francesco Passamonti4, Richard T. Silver5, Ronald Hoffman6, Srđan Verstovšek7, Ruben A. Mesa8, Jean‐Jacques Kiladjian9, R. Hehlmann10, Andreas Reiter10, Francisco Cervantes11, Claire Harrison12, Mary Frances Mc Mullin13, Hans Carl Hasselbalch14, Steffen Koschmieder15, Monia Marchetti16, Andrea Bacigalupo17, Guido Finazzi1, Nicolaus Kröger18, Martin Grießhammer19, Gunnar Birgegård20, Giovanni Barosi21
1Division of Hematology, Ospedale Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
2Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
3CRIMM, Center Research and Innovation of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, University of Florence, AOU Careggi, Florence, Italy
4Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Ospedale di Circolo, University of Insubria, ASST Sette Laghi, Varese, Italy
5Division of Hematology-Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
6Tisch Cancer Institute, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
7Department of Leukemia, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA
8UT Health San Antonio Cancer Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
9Centre d’Investigations Cliniques (CIC 1427), Assistance Publique—Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Saint-Louis, INSERM, Université Paris 7, Paris, France
10Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
11Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
12Department of Hematology, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
13Centre for Medical Education, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
14Department of Hematology, Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark
15Department of Hematology, Oncology, Hemostaseology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
16Hematology Day Service, Oncology SOC, Hospital Cardinal Massaia, Asti, Italy
17Istituto di Ematologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Gemelli, Rome, Italy
18Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
19Department of Hematology and Oncology, Johannes Wesling Medical Centre Minden, Academic Hospital of the University of Hannover, Minden, Germany
20Department of Hematology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
21Center for the Study of Myelofibrosis, IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo Foundation, Pavia, Italy

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