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Transplants for MDS and quality-of-life. But whose quality-of-life?

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Professors Teresa Hahn (Roswell Park Cancer Centre), Eli Estey (University of Washington), Giovanni Barosi (University of Pavia), Heidi Klepin (Wake Forest University), Cory Cutler and John Koreth (Harvard University), and Hillard Lazarus (Case Western Reserve University) kindly reviewed the typescript. RPG acknowledges support from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre funding scheme. We failed several sensitivity-training courses while formulating this typescript. Remedial work in progress.

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  3. Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA

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Gale, R., Pusic, I. Transplants for MDS and quality-of-life. But whose quality-of-life?. Bone Marrow Transplant 51, 1066–1068 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2016.147

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