12 November 2018 (Monday) - The Oncologist Newsletter


The Oncologist newsletter appeared in my in-box this morning. As well as a lot of peripheral interest there were a few articles about haematological malignancies including:


Hematologic Malignancies
Yushi Li, Huanhuan Sun, Yan Yan, Tiantian Sun, Shuncong Wang, Haiqing Ma

This article examines interpatient differences in advanced Hodgkin lymphoma incidence and long-term survival using data from the SEER database. Socioeconomic status and racial heterogeneities in the U.S. health care system have drawn increasing attention from oncologists and epidemiologists; therefore whether a patient’s demographic characteristics and socioeconomic status.

Haige Ye, Aakash Desai, Dongfeng Zeng, Jorge Romaguera, Michael L. Wang

This article presents frontline treatments for elderly patients with mantle cell lymphoma who need treatment in three different fitness levels (fit, unfit, or compromised and frail).

Xiao-Dong Mo, Yu Wang, Xiao-Hui Zhang, Lan-Ping Xu, Chen-Hua Yan, Huan Chen, Yu-Hong Chen, Ya-Zhen Qin, Kai-Yan Liu, Xiao-Jun Huang

RUNX1-RUNX1T1 transcript levels are markers for predicting relapse in patients with t(8;21) acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This article reports the efficacy of minimal residual disease-directed interferon-alpha (IFN-α) treatment in patients with t(8;21) AML who were positive for minimal residual disease after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.


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