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Nature Clinical Practice Oncology (2008) 5, 242
doi:10.1038/ncponc1096  

Myelodysplastic syndromes can be effectively treated with lenalidomide

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Lenalidomide is approved in the US for the treatment of transfusion-dependent anemia in patients who have low-risk or intermediate-1-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) with a chromosome 5q interstitial deletion. A multicenter phase II study has now shown that lenalidomide is effective in treating patients who have MDS with normal karyotypes or cytogenetic abnormalities other than 5q deletion.

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