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Allan A Lima Pereira, Gabriel Lenz, Tiago Biachi de Castria

Despite being considered a rare type of malignancy, constituting only 3% of all gastrointestinal cancers, the incidence of biliary tract cancers (BTCs) has been increasing worldwide in recent years, with about 20,000 new cases annually only in the USA.1–3 These cancers arise from the biliary epithelium of the small ducts in the periphery of the liver […]

TPO agents beyond ITP: aplastic anemia, inherited thrombocytopenia and chemotherapy induced thrombocytopenia

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Published Online: Feb 27th 2020

Speaker Prof. James Bussel

Learning objectives

– Understand that thrombopoietic agents (TPO) impacts the stem cell and thus can have trilineage effects

– Recognize that TPO agents are an important way to increase the platelet count in patients with inherited thrombocytopenia

– Evaluate the tole of TPO agents in chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia: which patients and which diseases

 

Published online: 27 February 2020

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