PURPOSE: A dramatic improvement in the survival of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) occurred after the introduction of imatinib mesylate, the first tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI). We assessed how these changes affected the life expectancy of patients with CML and life-years lost as a...
PURPOSE: A dramatic improvement in the survival of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) occurred after the introduction of imatinib mesylate, the first tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI). We assessed how these changes affected the life expectancy of patients with CML and life-yea...
Life expectancy and prognostic factors for survival in patients with polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia. Am J Med 2004; 117: 755–761. Google Scholar Kutti J, Ridell B . Epidemiology of the myeloproliferative disorders: essential thrombocythemia, polycythemia vera and idiopathic ...
With modern medical care, many persons with Down syndrome live into adulthood, although they do have a shorterlife expectancy, living on average to about 60 years, than normal adults because they develop the degenerative conditions ofold ageprematurely. Complications associated with Down syndrome inclu...
Patients taking imatinib for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) and who are in remission after two years of treatment have a mortality rate similar to that of the general population, according to a study published online in the .doi:10.1097/01.COT.0000397981.30782.fcNA...
life expectancyAcute myeloid leukemia (AML) can be diagnosed at any age and treatment, which can be given with supportive and/or curative intent, is considered expensive compared with that for other cancers. Despite this, no long-term predictive models have been developed for AML, mainly because...
CMLDasatinibGeneric imatinibImatinib mesylateNilotinibBackground With the advent of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) have a life expectancy similar to those of age- and sex-matched healthy populations. Nevertheless, patients receiving TKIs report chronic ...
Relation between life expectancy and composition of the bone marrow at diagnosis of chronic myeloid leukemia. Scand J Haematol 1974; 12:369-373.Sjögren U , Brandt L & Mitelman F ( 1974 ) Relation between life expectancy and composition of the bone marrow at diagnosis of chronic myeloid ...
Correlation between General Health with Life Expectancy and Quality of Life in Patients with leukemiaFarhad KahrazeeBehzad Rigi KootehAmir Akbari EsfahaniMajallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Qum
Imatinib may give normal life expectancy to patients with CML.(just in)(chronic myelogenous leukemia)(Report)McBride, Deborah