Eliana Zuffa

TL;DR: Prophylactic treatment with levofloxacin is an effective and well-tolerated way of preventing febrile episodes and other relevant infection-related outcomes in patients with cancer and profound and protracted neutropenia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared recombinant interferon alfa-2a with conventional chemotherapy (hydroxyurea or busulfan) in a trial designed to have a power of 80 percent to detect a difference of 20 percent in median survival.

TL;DR: In adult Ph(+) ALL, induction treatment with dasatinib plus steroids is associated with a CHR in virtually all patients, irrespective of age, good compliance, no deaths, and a very rapid debulking of the neoplastic clone.

TL;DR: For patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia, the inclusion of IFN alpha in the therapeutic regimen produced substantially better 5-year survival than standard chemotherapy alone.

TL;DR: The prognostic value of 12 clinical and haematological parameters, recorded at diagnosis, in myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia was retrospectively analysed and suggested that a more intensive chemotherapy might be useful for younger patients with bad prognostic factors at diagnosis.