MPN

“What we really want this to do is be a place for patients to facilitate conversations with their doctor,” Michelle Woehrle, executive director of MPN Research Foundation (MPNRF) said.

Recent research showed first-degree relatives of patients with certain types of blood cancers may be at an increased risk for such disease, highlighting the importance of counseling, gene testing and surveillance.

"The objective is to equip the research and drug development communities with the data needed to move better MPN treatments, and potentially, cures, through the discovery pipeline more quickly."
 

A national survey demonstrated shared feelings across all blood cancer types about treatment options and their side effects, as well as other social, financial and emotional aspects.

The award recognizes individuals and organizations who are making a difference in the myeloproliferative neoplasm community

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a priority review to a new drug application (NDA) for glasdegib to treat patients with previously untreated acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in combination with low-dose cytarabine (LDAC), which is a type of chemotherapy, according to Pfizer, the manufacturer of the drug.

While JAK inhibitors have proven to be an effective treatment for patients with myelofibrosis, a type of myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), they may come with a severe downside – in particular, a 16-fold increase in the chance of developing a B-cell lymphoma, according to recent research published in the journal Blood.

An MPN diagnosis can be overwhelming, but here are some of the basic facts every newly diagnosed patient should know.

An expert discusses a trial comparing recombinant interferon alpha-2 with hydroxyurea in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs).

After finding out she had an MPN, Barbara Abernathy, Ph.D., like many other people, felt numb. But then it was time to find her fight mode.