1. Efficacy and safety of a novel dosing strategy for ruxolitinib in the treatment of patients with myelofibrosis and anemia: the REALISE phase 2 study
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Pierre Zachee, David M. Ross, Lynda Foltz, Atanas Radinoff, Francesco Mannelli, Evren Zor, Francisco Cervantes, Francesco Passamonti, Heinz Gisslinger, Geralyn Gilotti, Haifa Kathrin Al-Ali, Francesca Palandri, Alexandr Myasnikov, Alessandro M. Vannucchi, Islam Sadek, Ranjan Tiwari, and Norio Komatsu
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Male ,Cancer Research ,Ruxolitinib ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Anemia ,Phases of clinical research ,Gastroenterology ,Article ,Myeloproliferative disease ,Internal medicine ,White blood cell ,Nitriles ,medicine ,Humans ,Chemotherapy ,Dosing ,Myelofibrosis ,Adverse effect ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ,business.industry ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Pyrimidines ,Treatment Outcome ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Oncology ,Primary Myelofibrosis ,Pyrazoles ,Female ,Patient Safety ,Hemoglobin ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Anemia is a frequent manifestation of myelofibrosis (MF) and there is an unmet need for effective treatments in anemic MF patients. The REALISE phase 2 study (NCT02966353) evaluated the efficacy and safety of a novel ruxolitinib dosing strategy with a reduced starting dose with delayed up-titration in anemic MF patients. Fifty-one patients with primary MF (66.7%), post-essential thrombocythemia MF (21.6%), or post-polycythemia vera MF (11.8%) with palpable splenomegaly and hemoglobin
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- 2021