Long-term treatment with ruxolitinib for patients with myelofibrosis: 5-year update from the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 COMFORT-I trial

Long-term treatment with ruxolitinib for patients with myelofibrosis: 5-year update from the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 COMFORT-I trial

Abstract Background The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 COMFORT-I trial evaluated the JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor ruxolitinib in patients with intermediate-2/high-risk myelofibrosis. The primary and planned 3-year analyses of COMFORT-I data demonstrated that ruxolitinib—the first myelo...

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Main Authors: Srdan Verstovsek, Ruben A. Mesa, Jason Gotlib, Vikas Gupta, John F. DiPersio, John V. Catalano, Michael W. N. Deininger, Carole B. Miller, Richard T. Silver, Moshe Talpaz, Elliott F. Winton, Jimmie H. Harvey, Murat O. Arcasoy, Elizabeth O. Hexner, Roger M. Lyons, Ronald Paquette, Azra Raza, Mark Jones, Deanna Kornacki, Kang Sun, Hagop Kantarjian, for the COMFORT-I investigators
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-02-01
Series:Journal of Hematology & Oncology
Subjects:
JAK
Janus kinase
Myelofibrosis
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13045-017-0417-z

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