Gender aspects in chronic myeloid leukemia: long-term results from randomized studies

Autor: Andreas Reiter, T. Lahaye, Dieter K. Hossfeld, Hermann Heimpel, Wolfgang Queisser, Rüdiger Hehlmann, Markus Pfirrmann, O. Maywald, Ursula Berger, H. Pralle, Helmut Löffler, Andreas Hochhaus, Hans-Jochem Kolb, Joerg Hasford
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Leukemia. 19(6)
ISSN: 0887-6924
Popis: Gender-related aspects in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) have not been studied well. We therefore analyzed 856 patients with Ph/BCR-ABL-positive CML from the German randomized CML-studies I (interferon alpha (IFN) vs hydroxyurea (HU) vs busulfan) and II (IFN+HU vs HU alone). The median observation time was 8.6 years. A total of 503 patients (59%) were male. Female patients were older (51 vs 46 years; P
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