Superior outcome with hypomethylating therapy in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome and chromosome 5 and 7 abnormalities
β Scribed by Farhad Ravandi; Jean-Pierre Issa; Guillermo Garcia-Manero; Susan O'Brien; Sherry Pierce; Jianqin Shan; Gautam Borthakur; Srdan Verstovsek; Stefan Faderl; Jorge Cortes; Hagop Kantarjian
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Volume
- 115
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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