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ReviewHaematologica2012

Acute myeloid leukemia developing in patients with autoimmune diseases.

Safaa M Ramadan, Tamer M Fouad, Valentina Summa, Syed Kh Hasan, Francesco Lo-Coco

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Review in Haematologica, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Safaa M RamadanDepartment of Medical Oncology, NCI-Cairo University, 11796 Cairo, Egypt. safaanci@yahoo.com
Tamer M Fouad
Valentina Summa
Syed Kh Hasan
Francesco Lo-Coco
Cairo University · EGUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata · ITUniversità Campus Bio-Medico · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia is an unfortunate complication of cancer treatment, particularly for patients with highly curable primary malignancies and favorable life expectancy. The risk of developing therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia also applies to patients with non-malignant conditions, such as autoimmune diseases treated with cytotoxic and/or immunosuppressive agents. There is considerable evidence to suggest that there is an increased occurrence of hematologic malignancies in patients with autoimmune diseases compared to the general population, with a further increase in risk after exposure to cytotoxic therapies. Unfortunately, studies have failed to reveal a clear correlation between leukemia development and exposure to individual agents used for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. Given the dismal outcome of secondary acute myeloid leukemia and the wide range of available agents for treatment of autoimmune diseases, an increased awareness of this risk and further investigation into the pathogenetic mechanisms of acute leukemia in autoimmune disease patients are warranted. This article will review the data available on the development of acute myeloid leukemia in patients with autoimmune diseases. Possible leukemogeneic mechanisms in these patients, as well as evidence supporting the association of their primary immunosuppressive status and their exposure to specific therapies, will also be reviewed. This review also supports the idea that it may be misleading to label leukemias that develop in patients with autoimmune diseases who are exposed to cytotoxic agents as 'therapy-related leukemias'. A better understanding of the molecular defects in autoimmune disease patients who develop acute leukemia will lead to a better understanding of the association between these two diseases entities.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic AgentsArthritis, RheumatoidCytotoxinsEpidemiologic StudiesHumansImmunosuppression TherapyImmunosuppressive AgentsInflammatory Bowel DiseasesLeukemia, Myeloid, AcuteLupus Erythematosus, SystemicMultiple SclerosisRiskAntineoplastic AgentsCytotoxinsImmunosuppressive Agents

Identifiers

PMID22180424
PMCPMC3366644
OpenAlexW1980141536

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