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Trial reportBritish journal of haematology2021

Association of frailty with clinical outcomes in myelofibrosis: a retrospective cohort study.

Aniket Bankar, Shabbir Alibhai, Elliot Smith, Dongyang Yang, Sarah Malik, Verna Cheung, Nancy Siddiq, Jaime Claudio, Andrea Arruda, Hubert Tsui and 7 more

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Trial report in British journal of haematology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Prognostic and Predictive Models in Myelofibrosis.Current hematologic malignancy reports · 2024
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Myelofibrosis.Blood · 2023
    Review
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Aniket BankarPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0140-0538
Shabbir AlibhaiToronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Elliot SmithPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Dongyang YangPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sarah MalikPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Verna CheungPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Nancy SiddiqPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Jaime ClaudioPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Andrea ArrudaPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Hubert TsuiSunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Jose-Mario Capo-ChichiPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
James A KennedyPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Caroline McNamaraPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Hassan SibaiPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Dawn MazePrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Wei XuPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Vikas GuptaPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-1419-8607

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is limited understanding of the impact of frailty on clinical outcomes in patients with myelofibrosis (MF). In this retrospective cohort study on 439 chronic phase MF patients [mean age: 68·7 ± 12 years; median follow-up: 3·4 years (IQR 0·4-8·6)] from 2004 till 2018, we used a 35-variable frailty index (FI) to categorise patient's frailty status as fit (FI < 0·2, reference), prefrail (FI 0·2-0·29) or frail (FI ≥ 0·3). The association of frailty with overall survival (OS) and cumulative JAK inhibitor (JAKi) therapy failure was measured using hazard ratio (HR, 95% CI). In multivariable analysis, prefrail (HR 1·7, 1·1-2·5) and frail patients (HR 2·9, 1·6-5·5), those with higher DIPSS score (HR 2·5, 1·6-3·9) and transfusion dependency (HR 1·9, 1·3-2·9) had shorter OS. In a subset analysis of patients on JAKi treatment (n = 222), frail patients (HR 2·5, 1·1-5·7), patients with higher DIPSS score (HR 1·7, 1·0-3·1) and transfusion dependence (HR 1·7, 1·1-2·7) had higher cumulative incidence of JAKi failure. Age, comorbidities, ECOG performance status, and MPN driver mutations did not impact outcomes. Thus, higher frailty scores are associated with worse OS and increased JAKi failure in MF, and is a superior indicator of fitness in comparison to age, comorbidities, and performance status.

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AgedAged, 80 and overFrail ElderlyFrailtyHumansMiddle AgedPrimary MyelofibrosisProtein Kinase InhibitorsRetrospective StudiesSurvival AnalysisTreatment OutcomeProtein Kinase InhibitorsfrailtyJAK inhibitorsmyelofibrosisprognostic factors

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PMID34131896
PMCPMC8361997

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