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ArticleJournal of breast cancer2019

Clinical Effects of Hypomethylating Agents in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Myelodysplastic Syndrome Who Received DNA-Damaging Chemotherapy for Metastatic Breast Cancer.

Dong Won Baek, Soo Jung Lee, Sang Kyun Sohn, Joon Ho Moon, Yee Soo Chae

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Article in Journal of breast cancer, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dong Won BaekDepartment of Oncology/Hematology, Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, Kyungpook National University Cancer Research Institute, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-4446-1549
Soo Jung LeeDepartment of Oncology/Hematology, Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, Kyungpook National University Cancer Research Institute, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-0066-4109
Sang Kyun SohnDepartment of Oncology/Hematology, Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, Kyungpook National University Cancer Research Institute, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-1874-3959
Joon Ho MoonDepartment of Oncology/Hematology, Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, Kyungpook National University Cancer Research Institute, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-3756-796X
Yee Soo ChaeDepartment of Oncology/Hematology, Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, Kyungpook National University Cancer Research Institute, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-8585-4982
Kyungpook National University Hospital · KR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cumulative risk of therapy-related myelodysplastic syndrome (t-MDS) in breast cancer patients exposed to chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy is significantly high compared to that in other cancer patients. This report reviews the use of hypomethylating agents (HMAs) to treat a 57-year-old woman newly diagnosed with MDS during palliative chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer. Over a period of 6 years, the patient received several DNA-damaging chemotherapeutics including doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, and paclitaxel. Repeated thrombocytopenia was the main reason for suspecting secondary hematologic malignancy. She was diagnosed with t-MDS based on bone marrow examination and her treatment history for breast cancer. While azacitidine was originally administered to stabilize MDS, it also stabilized the patient's lung and lymph node metastases without any major toxicity. Therefore, the current case highlights the promising effects of HMAs for treating t-MDS following heavily pretreated breast cancer.

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AzacitidineBreast neoplasmsDNA methylationMyelodysplastic syndrome

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PMCPMC6933035
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