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Counseling patients with higher-risk MDS regarding survival with azacitidine therapy: are we using realistic estimates?
11 Jun 2018
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Azacitidine is the only drug proven to prolong overall survival (OS) in patients with higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (HR-MDS) in the large randomized trial AZA-001 with a median OS of 24.5 months among azacitidine-treated patients vs. 15.0 months in the conventional care regimens (CCR) arm, with a hazard ratio of 0.58; p = 0.0001 1 . Two-year OS probability was 51% in azacitidine arm compared with 26% in...
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