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Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Subsequent Cancer Risk: A Danish Population-Based Cohort Study
2nd Cancer Risk Associated With Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
H Frederiksen, DK Farkas, CF Christiansen, HC Hasselbalch, HT Sorensen
20110928
2011 Oct 28
Blood
Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms and Subsequent Cancer Risk: A Danish Population-Based Cohort Study
Blood. 2011 Oct 28;[Epub Ahead of Print], H Frederiksen, DK Farkas, CF Christiansen, HC Hasselbalch, HT Sorensen
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Abstract
Patients with chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms, including essential thrombocythemia (ET), polycythemia vera (PV), and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), are at increased risk of new hematological malignancies, but their risk of non-hematological malignancies remains unknown. We thus assessed the risk of both types of malignancies after an ET, PV, or CML diagnosis. We linked two population-based nationwide registries, the Danish National Registry of Patients covering all Danish hospitals and the...