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Recombinant interferon alpha (rIFNα-2b) may retard progression of early primary myelofibrosis

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This work was supported by a grant form the William and Judy Higgins Trust of the Cancer Research and Treatment Fund, Inc., New York, NY, USA.

We acknowledge the measurement of JAK2V617F allele burden by Dr Lynn Wang, Dr Nicholas CP Cross and Amy Jones. Drs Attilio Orazi, Wayne Tam and Amy Chadburn independently reviewed marrow biopsies for this study. Paul Christos provided statistical assistance.The Weill Cornell Medical College Institutional Review Board has approved this retrospective review of patients treated with interferon. Presented in part at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology, 6–9 December, 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Silver, R., Vandris, K. Recombinant interferon alpha (rIFNα-2b) may retard progression of early primary myelofibrosis. Leukemia 23, 1366–1369 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2009.90

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