Newly revised and updated, 100 Questions & Answers About Myelodysplastic Syndromes provides authoritative and practical answers to the most common questions asked by patients and their loved ones. What is myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)? What causes MDS? Is MDS hereditary, and will I give it to my children? Written by experts in the field, and with commentary from actual patients, this guide is the only text available to provide both the doctor's and patient's views.100 Questions & Answers About Myelodysplastic Syndromes is an invaluable resource for anyone struggling with the medical, physical, and emotional turmoil of this disease.

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This issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics, guest edited by David P. Steensma, will cover key topics in Myelodysplastic Syndromes. This issue is one of six selected each year by our series consulting editors, George P. Canellos and Edward J. Benz. Topics discussed in this issue will include: Novel prognostic models for MDS, Evaluating MDS patients with genetic mutations that might be germline, Implications of splicing mutations in MDS for pathophysiology and therapy, Assessing quality of life in MDS/MPN overlap patients, Creation of a clinic for patients with clonal hematopoiesis, Luspatercept in MDS, Prospects for venetoclax in MDS, Treatment of acquired sideroblastic anemias, Treatment of patients with AML arising from MDS, Targeting TP53 mutations in MDS, among others.