Myelodysplastic syndromes: the complexity of stem-cell diseases
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- 1 February 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Reviews Cancer
- Vol. 7 (2) , 118-129
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nrc2047
Abstract
The prevalence of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) is increasing owing to an ageing population and increased awareness of these diseases. MDS represent many different conditions, not just a single disease, that are grouped together by several clinical characteristics. A striking feature of MDS is genetic instability, and a large proportion of cases result in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). We Review three emerging principles of MDS biology: stem-cell dysfunction and the overlap with AML, genetic instability and the deregulation of apoptosis, in the context of inherited bone marrow-failure syndromes, and treatment-related MDS and AML.Keywords
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