by David Wallace Patients are Asking – MPN Expert Dr. Ghaith Abu-Zeinah discusses Ropeginterferon (BESREMi), new Treatment for Polycythemia Vera Episode 3 of 3 Ropeginterferon / BESREMi was recently approved by the FDA to treat polycythemia vera. Should I switch from Pegasys to the new FDA approved interferon? How might BESREMi change the treatment paradigm […]
New Horizons in MPN Treatment, A Review of Therapeutic Options
Abstract Philadelphia-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) are aggressive diseases characterized by clonal proliferation of myeloid stem cells. The clonal process leads to excessive red cells production, platelets production, and bone marrow fibrosis. According to the phenotype, MPN can be classified as polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET), and primary myelofibrosis (PMF). MPN patients have shortened survival […]
Myelofibrosis, New Markers of Disease Progression
Simple Summary Disease progression and prognosis in PMF are usually associated with worsening of anemia, increase of circulating blasts, and, more recently, with the presence, in addition to the “classical” driver mutations, of JAK2, MPL, and CALR genes, as well as of cytogenetic and molecular abnormalities that have been incorporated into new genetically based prognostic scoring systems. We have […]
MPN Clinical Trials 2021 Update
Patients are Asking – MPN Expert Dr. Andrew Kuykendall Episode 2 of 3 Update on MPN Clinical Trials in 2021. The PDUFA date is the end of the review period, where the FDA has to make a decision or respond to a New Drug Application (NDA) or a Biologics License Application (BLA). Ropeginterferon and Pacritinib […]
September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month for MPNs
by Lou Ann Donovan National Blood Cancer Awareness Month is an annual event created by Congress in September 2010 to bring awareness to diseases of the blood, including chronic blood cancers known as Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs). Every three minutes someone in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer. Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs) blood cancer […]
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