Transfusion Medicine
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Vitiligo, alopecia more likely in GVHD when donor is female and recipient is male
Key clinical point: Female-to-male stem cell donation ups the risk for vitiligo in GVHD. Major finding: 14 of the 15 patients who developed...
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Imatinib appears safe, effective for the long haul
Key clinical finding: Imatinib is safe and effective for treating patients with chronic myeloid leukemia over the course of a decade. Major...
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Swapping bortezomib for vincristine improves PFS in mantle cell lymphoma
Key clinical point: Substituting bortezomib for vincristine may bring clinical benefit to patients with newly diagnosed mantle cell lymphoma who...
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Monosomal karyotype, high prognostic risk score predicted transplantation failure
Major finding: Patients with a monosomal karyotype had a 49% relapse rate and a 10% 5-year overall survival rate, and those considered high or...
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No survival benefit for routine surveillance scans in classical Hodgkin disease
Major finding: The ratio of scans to detected relapses was 18 for the clinical surveillance group and 124 for the routine scan group.