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Blood, 1 September 2006, Vol. 108, No. 5, pp. 1497-1503. Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on May 4, 2006; DOI 10.1182/blood-2006-03-009746. This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) All Versions of this Article: blood-2006-03-009746v1 108/5/1497    most recent Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Rights and Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via CrossRef Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Tefferi, A. Articles by Kantarjian, H. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Tefferi, A. Articles by Kantarjian, H. 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Gary Gilliland, and Hagop Kantarjian From the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy; Hospital Clinic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain; the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom; the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Service d'Hématologie Clinique, Centre Hospitalier de Lens, France; Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY; the University of Chicago, IL; the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; the Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; the Department of Hematology and Blood Coagulation, Medical University of Vienna, Austria; the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; the Institute of Pathology, University of Cologne, Germany; the University of Illinois, Chicago and the Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Salisbury, United Kingdom. Myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia (MMM) is a clinicopathologic entity characterized by stem cell-derived clonal myeloproliferation, ineffective erythropoiesis, extramedullary hematopoiesis, and bone marrow fibrosis and osteosclerosis. Patients with MMM have shortened survival and their quality of life is compromised by progressive anemia, marked hepatosplenomegaly, and severe constitutional symptoms including cachexia. After decades of frustration with ineffective therapy, patients are now being served by promising treatment approaches that include allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and immunomodulatory drugs. Recent information regarding disease pathogenesis, including a contribution to the myeloproliferative disorder phenotype by a gain-of-function JAK2 mutation (JAK2V617F), has revived the prospect of targeted therapeutics as well as molecular monitoring of treatment response. 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