Sentences with phrase «treating myelodysplastic syndrome»

After decades of additional research, azacitidine (Vidaza) was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2004 for treating myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.

Decitabine is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat myelodysplastic syndromes and leukemia, and for use in clinical trials for several types of solid - tumour cancers including colorectal.

Azacitidine is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating all myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) subtypes.

Currently, researchers are studying arsenic trioxide, as a single agent or in combination with other medicines, for treating myelodysplastic syndromes.

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The researchers treated 63 cancer cell lines (26 breast, 14 colorectal and 23 ovarian) with low - dose 5 - azacitidine (AZA), an FDA - approved drug for myelodysplastic syndrome, that reverses epigenetic changes by stripping off the methyl group that silences the gene.

Inclusion Criteria: • Subject has a diagnosis of primary acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or AML secondary to myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) according to WHO classification (2008) as determined by pathology review at the treating institute.

It is approved for treating low - risk, transfusion - dependent myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) patients with an abnormality of chromosome 5q.