High absolute basophil count is a powerful independent predictor of inferior overall survival in patients with primary myelofibrosis.

CONCLUSION: Basophils represent a part of malignant clone in PMF and are associated with unfavorable disease features and poor prognosis which is independent of currently established prognostic scoring system and monocytosis. PMID: 28906207 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Hematology - Category: Hematology Tags: Hematology Source Type: research