Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on June 27, 2007
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(13):1050-1051; doi:10.1093/jnci/djm014
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Re: Acute Myeloid Leukemia or Myelodysplastic Syndrome Following Use of Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factors During Breast Cancer Adjuvant Chemotherapy
Affiliations of authors: Department of Medical Oncology (MC, LDM, PP), and Clinical Epidemiology (PB), National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy; Department of Medical Oncology, Negrar Hospital, Verona, Italy (MV)
Correspondence to: Matteo Clavarezza, MD, Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Research Institute, L.go Rosanna Benzi, n.10 16132, Genoa, Italy (e-mail: matteo.clavarezza@istge.it).
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Hershman et al. (1) reported an increased risk (hazard ratio [HR] = 2.14) of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) among women with breast cancer aged 65 years or older included in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)Medicare database who were treated with adjuvant chemotherapy and received granulocyte colony-stimulating factors (G-CSFs) or granulocytemacrophage colony-stimulating factors
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J Natl Cancer Inst 2007 99: 1051-1052.