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Application of the International Prognostic Scoring System-Revised in therapy-related myelodysplastic syndromes and oligoblastic acute myeloid leukemia

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Wang, Hasserjian and Garcia-Manero designed the study. OK, Hasserjian, Young and Patel collected the data. OK, Fox, Stingo, Zuo and Wang analyzed the data. OK, Wang, Hasserjian, Medeiros, Fox and Stingo wrote the paper.

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Ok, C., Hasserjian, R., Fox, P. et al. Application of the International Prognostic Scoring System-Revised in therapy-related myelodysplastic syndromes and oligoblastic acute myeloid leukemia. Leukemia 28, 185–189 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2013.191

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