Sentences with phrase «called myeloproliferative»

4/7/2008 From Bench to Bedside in One Year: Stem Cell Research Leads to Potential New Therapy for Rare Blood Disorder A unique partnership between industry and academia has led to human clinical trials of a new drug for a rare class of blood diseases called myeloproliferative disorders (MPD), which are all driven by the same genetic mutation and can evolve into leuk... More...

The team has shown that the microenvironment that controls hematopoietic stem cells can be targeted for the treatment of a set of disorders called myeloproliferative neoplasias, the most prominent of which are chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML), juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML), and atypical chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).

Next on 23andMe's agenda: applying the same approach to rare cancers, such as sarcoma and a group of blood cancers called myeloproliferative neoplasms, that are difficult to study but that might be ideally suited to this kind of analysis.

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You may also hear doctors call them MPN or myeloproliferative disorders (MPD).