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Geriatric assessment in older patients with acute myeloid leukemia: A retrospective study of associated treatment and outcomes

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The results support the use of geriatric assessment to better predict prognosis in older patients with AML, even among those with excellent functional status.
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This article is published in Leukemia Research.The article was published on 2013-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 88 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Comorbidity.

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Acute myeloid leukemia, version 3.2017: Clinical practice guidelines in oncology

TL;DR: This portion of the NCCN Guidelines for AML focuses on management and provides recommendations on the workup, diagnostic evaluation, and treatment options for younger and older adult patients.
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How I treat the older patient with acute myeloid leukemia

TL;DR: The dilemmas in tailoring treatment selection in this category of patients with AML are the central theme in this discussion.
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Frailty and the management of hematologic malignancies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defined frailty and its relevance for patients with hematologic malignancy and proposed elements of a new research agenda for geriatric hematology: the exchange of age limits for rigorous frailty screening, development of disease-specific measures, and inclusion of functional and patient-reported outcomes alongside survival.
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Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes in Older Adults

TL;DR: Clinical trials accounting for the heterogeneity of tumor biology and aging are needed to define standard-of-care treatments for both disease groups and should include outcomes addressing quality of life, maintenance of independence, and use of health care services to assist in patient-centered decision making.
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Myelodysplastic syndromes current treatment algorithm 2018.

TL;DR: Individual risk stratification using tools such as the revised International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS-R) is important in managing patients—including selecting candidates for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (ASCT), the only potentially curative therapy for MDS.
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Revised Recommendations of the International Working Group for Diagnosis, Standardization of Response Criteria, Treatment Outcomes, and Reporting Standards for Therapeutic Trials in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

TL;DR: An International Working Group met to revise the diagnostic and response criteria for acute myelogenous leukemia originally published in 1990, as well as to provide definitions of outcomes and reporting standards to improve interpretability of data and comparisons among trials as mentioned in this paper.
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Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT)-specific comorbidity index: a new tool for risk assessment before allogeneic HCT.

TL;DR: The new simple index provided valid and reliable scoring of pretransplant comorbidities that predicted nonrelapse mortality and survival and will be useful for clinical trials and patient counseling before HCT.
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Age and acute myeloid leukemia

TL;DR: The combination of a poor performance status and advanced age identified a group of patients with a very high likelihood of dying within 30 days of initiating induction therapy, arguing for age-specific assessments when evaluating therapies for AML.
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