Authors
Giulia Maggioni, Matteo Bersanelli, Erica Travaglino, Ana Alfonso Piérola, Annika Kasprzak, Arnan Sangerman Montserrat, Elisabetta Sauta, Claudia Sala, Tommaso Matteuzzi, Manja Meggendorfer, Matteo Gnocchi, Lin-Pierre Zhao, Cristina Astrid Tentori, Kathrin Nachtkamp, Daniele Dall'Olio, Ettore Mosca, Marta Ubezio, Alessia Campagna, Antonio Russo, Giulia Rivoli, Massimo Bernardi, Lorenza Borin, Maria Teresa Voso, Marta Riva, Esther Oliva, Matteo Zampini, Elena Riva, Elena Saba, Saverio D'amico, Luca Lanino, Benedetta Tinterri, Francesca Re, Marilena Bicchieri, Laura Giordano, Giovanni Angelotti, Pierandrea Morandini, Anne Sophie Kubasch, Francesco Passamonti, Alessandro Rambaldi, Victor Savevski, Armando Santoro, Arjan A van de Loosdrecht, Alice Brogi, Valeria Santini, Shahram Kordasti, Guillermo Sanz, Francesc Sole, Norbert Gattermann, Wolfgang Kern, Uwe Platzbecker, Lionel Ades, Pierre Fenaux, Torsten Haferlach, Gastone Castellani, Ulrich Germing, Maria Diez-Campelo, Matteo G Della Porta
Publication date
2023/2/1
Journal
The Lancet Haematology
Volume
10
Issue
2
Pages
e117-e128
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Background
Sex is a major source of diversity among patients and a sex-informed approach is becoming a new paradigm in precision medicine. We aimed to describe sex diversity in myelodysplastic syndromes in terms of disease genotype, phenotype, and clinical outcome. Moreover, we sought to incorporate sex information into the clinical decision-making process as a fundamental component of patient individuality.
Methods
In this multicentre, observational cohort study, we retrospectively analysed 13 284 patients aged 18 years or older with a diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome according to 2016 WHO criteria included in the EuroMDS network (n=2025), International Working Group for Prognosis in MDS (IWG-PM; n=2387), the Spanish Group of Myelodysplastic Syndromes registry (GESMD; n=7687), or the Düsseldorf MDS registry (n=1185). Recruitment periods for these cohorts were between 1990 and …
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