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Luspatercept, sold under the brand name Reblozyl, is a medication used for the treatment of anemia in beta thalassemia and myelodysplastic syndromes. [ 5 ] The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers it to be a first-in-class medication .
Luspatercept was shown to decrease the need for transfusions and this effect lasted for a median of 30.6 weeks. [ 51 ] [ 36 ] [ 52 ] HLA -matched allogeneic stem cell transplantation , particularly in younger (i.e. less than 40 years of age) and more severely affected patients, offers the potential for curative therapy.
Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are a group of rare blood cancers in which excess red blood cells, white blood cells or platelets are produced in the bone marrow. Myelo refers to the bone marrow, proliferative describes the rapid growth of blood cells and neoplasm describes that growth as abnormal and uncontrolled.
Prefibrotic primary myelofibrosis (Pre-PMF) is a rare blood cancer, classified by the World Health Organization as a distinct type of myeloproliferative neoplasm in 2016. [1] The disease is progressive to overt primary myelofibrosis , though the rate of progression is variable and not all patients progress.
Scientists have characterized the role of thousands of mutations in the BRCA2 cancer gene, findings that may help reassure worried patients about their cancer risk or guide doctors toward better ...
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Primary myelofibrosis (PMF) is a rare bone marrow blood cancer. [1] It is classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a type of myeloproliferative neoplasm, a group of cancers in which there is activation and growth of mutated cells in the bone marrow.
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