Scoring System Identifies MDS Patients Who Have Low-risk Disease But A Poor Prognosis

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Scoring System Identifies MDS Patients Who Have Low-risk Disease But A Poor Prognosis - 21-12-2007, 03:11 PM

A new scoring system for a form of leukemia known as myelodysplastic syndrome identifies patients who appear to have low-risk disease but actually have poor prospects of survival. Physicians tend to adopt a watch and wait approach to low-risk MDS patients, which the researcher says misses low-risk/poor prognosis patients.

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