Xiaomei Ma

..This provided the first opportunity to examine the incidence and survival of patients with MDS in the United States using a large, population-based database...

..The relevance of different comorbidities to MDS prognosis and the potential interaction between various comorbidities represents an interesting area of research...

..This study is the first to assess the prevalence of PV and ET in a large US population. Given the large number of individuals afflicted with these diseases and the fact that demographic changes alone will further increase the burden of..

..This study was the first to identify smoking as a significant and independent predictor of MDS survival, particularly among low-risk patients...

..We also provide suggestions for the next stages of studies...

..The authors evaluated the relation between maternal pregnancy loss, birth characteristics, and childhood leukemia in the Northern California Childhood Leukemia Study...

..These results offer indirect yet strong support for the infectious disease hypothesis in the etiology of ALL in non-Hispanic White children and highlight an important ethnic difference...

..Previous studies on vaccination and childhood leukaemia generated inconsistent results...

..This prospective investigation of MDS implicates both obesity and smoking as modifiable risk factors...

..0% for 560 enrolled birth certificate controls), using birth records to recruit controls appears to provide a representative sample of children and an opportunity to assess the representativeness of controls...

..Neither fruit nor vegetable intake was associated with acute myeloid leukemia. This large prospective study identified smoking and meat intake as risk factors for acute myeloid leukemia...

..Relatively few MDS patients were treated with HMAs during the introduction period of these agents, and multiple patient characteristics such as sex, comorbidities, and MDS subtype influence the likelihood a patient receives HMAs...

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..This study confirms comorbidity as a significant and independent determinant of MDS survival, and the findings underscore the importance to take comorbid conditions into account when assessing the prognosis of MDS...

..In conclusion, this population-based study suggests that neighborhood SES status is a significant and independent determinant of survival among elderly patients with MDS in the United States...

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..These findings suggest that recent treatment options utilizing lower dose radiation and less intense alkylator chemotherapy might be associated with lower incidences of SMNs among adults but not necessarily children...

..The findings suggest that exposure to household pesticides is associated with an elevated risk of childhood leukemia and further indicate the importance of the timing and location of exposure...

..The mechanistic basis for this 2-fold variation in frequency of TEL-AML1 may be due to ethnic-specific risk factors or genetics and should be explored further...

..Recent research has established that the disease can originate in utero, and thus maternal diet may be an important risk factor for ALL...

..Secondary changes were also similar to those described previously, with deletion of the second TEL allele being the most common. Other secondary changes included duplication of the fusion gene, trisomy 21, and monosomy X...

..96-1.59) and 1.20 (95% CI, 0.93-1.55), respectively] when the highest quintile was compared with the lowest. In conclusion, well and very well done meat was associated with an increased risk for prostate cancer in this cohort...

..The purpose of the award is to provide Dr. Xiaomei Ma protected time and additional training and mentoring so she could become an independent investigator...