Associations between gender, disease features and symptom burden in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms: an analysis by the MPN QOL International Working Group

oleh: Holly L. Geyer, Heidi Kosiorek, Amylou C. Dueck, Robyn Scherber, Stefanie Slot, Sonja Zweegman, Peter AW te Boekhorst, Zhenya Senyak, Harry C. Schouten, Federico Sackmann, Ana Kerguelen Fuentes, Dolores Hernández-Maraver, Heike L. Pahl, Martin Griesshammer, Frank Stegelmann, Konstanze Döhner, Thomas Lehmann, Karin Bonatz, Andreas Reiter, Francoise Boyer, Gabriel Etienne, Jean-Christophe Ianotto, Dana Ranta, Lydia Roy, Jean-Yves Cahn, Claire N. Harrison, Deepti Radia, Pablo Muxi, Norman Maldonado, Carlos Besses, Francisco Cervantes, Peter L. Johansson, Tiziano Barbui, Giovanni Barosi, Alessandro M. Vannucchi, Chiara Paoli, Francesco Passamonti, Bjorn Andreasson, Maria L Ferrari, Alessandro Rambaldi, Jan Samuelsson, Keith Cannon, Gunnar Birgegard, Zhijian Xiao, Zefeng Xu, Yue Zhang, Xiujuan Sun, Junqing Xu, Jean-Jacques Kiladjian, Peihong Zhang, Robert Peter Gale, Ruben A. Mesa

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Diterbitkan: Ferrata Storti Foundation 2017-01-01

Deskripsi

The myeloproliferative neoplasms, including polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia and myelofibrosis, are distinguished by their debilitating symptom profiles, life-threatening complications and profound impact on quality of life. The role gender plays in the symptomatology of myeloproliferative neoplasms remains under-investigated. In this study we evaluated how gender relates to patients’ characteristics, disease complications and overall symptom expression. A total of 2,006 patients (polycythemia vera=711, essential thrombocythemia=830, myelofibrosis=460, unknown=5) were prospectively evaluated, with patients completing the Myeloproliferative Neoplasm-Symptom Assessment Form and Brief Fatigue Inventory Patient Reported Outcome tools. Information on the individual patients’ characteristics, disease complications and laboratory data was collected. Consistent with known literature, most female patients were more likely to have essential thrombocythemia (48.6% versus 33.0%; P