ASH Clinical News Focus on Myeloid Malignancies | Page 3
MAY 2017
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY
HEADQUARTERS
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS
Vice-Chair for Clinical Research
Director, Leukemia Program
Cleveland Clinic, Taussig Cancer Institute
Cleveland, OH
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Beth Faiman, CNP, PhD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Alice Ma, MD
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC
CONTENTS
David Steensma, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
Keith Stewart, MBChB, MBA
Mayo Clinic
Scottsdale, AZ
PUBLISHER
American Medical Communications
EDITORIAL
MANAGING EDITORS
Kristin Hubing, ASH
Ariel Jones-DeMaio, AMC
ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR
Kerri Fitzgerald, AMC
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Laurie Adamson, ASH
ART DIRECTOR
Ari Mihos
ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR
Charlene DePrizio
DIGITAL PROJECTS MANAGER
Chris Gedikli
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IN THE PIPELINE MEETING NEWS
Agents currently under
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myeloid malignancies. A collection of news and reports in
myeloid malignanices from recent
hematology/oncology meetings,
including the 2017 American
Association for Cancer Research
Annual Meeting and the the 43rd
Annual Meeting of the European
Society for Blood and Marrow
Transplantation.
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IN THE LITERATURE
Reviewing the major changes to
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