Following the Genetic Breadcrumbs of MPNs
Gaurav Agarwal1,2,3,4, Vijay G Sankaran1,2,3,4,5
1Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Cancer Discovery
|September 1, 2026
Abstract:
We provide an overview of a recent study in Cancer Discovery by Leongamornlert and colleagues involving genomic profiling of 30 patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms using available blood or bone marrow samples to assess what factors underlie disease evolution or predict stability. See related article by Leongamornlert et al., p. 1843.
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