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EHA 2024 | Factors associated with progression to myelofibrosis in patients with essential thrombocythemia

Ruben Mesa, MD, Levine Cancer Institute, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center, Winston Salem, NC, discusses features that are suggestive of progression to myelofibrosis (MF) in patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET). He mentions the duration of disease, leukocytosis, JAK2 mutations, and fibrosis as factors that are associated with an increased risk of progression. This interview took place at the 29th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) in Madrid, Spain.

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Research Funding: Promedior, Incyte, Genetech, Abbvie, Samus, Celgene, Constellation, CTI BioPharma.- a Sobi Company, Mays Cancer Center, NCI
Consultancy: Constellation, LaJolla Pharma, Sierra Onc, Novartis.