Cancer Medicine (Aug 2019)

Second primary malignancies in postpolycythemia vera and postessential thrombocythemia myelofibrosis: A study on 2233 patients

  • Barbara Mora,
  • Elisa Rumi,
  • Paola Guglielmelli,
  • Daniela Barraco,
  • Margherita Maffioli,
  • Alessandro Rambaldi,
  • Marianna Caramella,
  • Rami Komrokji,
  • Jason Gotlib,
  • Jean Jacques Kiladjian,
  • Francisco Cervantes,
  • Timothy Devos,
  • Francesca Palandri,
  • Valerio DeStefano,
  • Marco Ruggeri,
  • Richard T. Silver,
  • Giulia Benevolo,
  • Francesco Albano,
  • Chiara Cavalloni,
  • Daniela Pietra,
  • Tiziano Barbui,
  • Giada Rotunno,
  • Mario Cazzola,
  • Alessandro Maria Vannucchi,
  • Toni Giorgino,
  • Francesco Passamonti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.2107
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 9
pp. 4089 – 4092

Abstract

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Abstract Patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) are known to have higher incidence of nonhematological second primary malignancies (SPM) compared to general population. In the MYSEC study on 781 secondary myelofibrosis (SMF) patients, the incidence of SPM after SMF diagnosis resulted 0.98/100 patient‐years. When including non‐melanoma skin cancers (NMSC), the incidence arose to 1.56/100 patient‐years. In SMF, JAK inhibitor treatment was associated only with NMSC occurrence. Then, we merged the MYSEC cohort with a large dataset of PV and ET not evolving into SMF. In this subanalysis, we did not find any correlation between SPM and SMF occurrence. These findings highlight the need of studies aimed at identifying MPN patients at higher risk of SPM.

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