Clinical Significance of Serum Ferritin at Diagnosis in Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A YACHT Multicenter Retrospective Study

The clinical significance of ferritin at diagnosis in patients with acute myeloid leukemia was examined in a multicenter retrospective study. Elevated ferritin may indicate tumor burden and predict worse event-free survival in the high-risk karyotype group.

Source: Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia - March 30, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: Takayoshi Tachibana, Taiki Andou, Masatsugu Tanaka, Satomi Ito, Takuya Miyazaki, Yoshimi Ishii, Eriko Ogusa, Hideyuki Koharazawa, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Kenji Motohashi, Jun Aoki, Yuki Nakajima, Kenji Matsumoto, Maki Hagihara, Chizuko Hashimoto, Jun Taguchi, Tags: Original Study Source Type: research