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Hematology in 2010

New therapies and standard of care in oncology

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2010 was not a year of survival breakthroughs in hematologic malignancies. However, in Hodgkin's disease and multiple myeloma new therapies emerged as the standard of care and nilotinib may be considered the treatment choice for newly diagnosed chronic myeloid leukemia.

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Figure 1: Interaction of H-RS cells with the microenvironment.

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DeVita, V., Canellos, G. New therapies and standard of care in oncology. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 8, 67–68 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrclinonc.2010.221

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