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VOLUME 01 | NUMBER 09 | SEPTEMBER 2015
What’s New for September
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY
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WHAT’S INSIDE
Minimal Residual Disease:
ALL It’s Cracked Up to Be?
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS
Vice-Chair for Clinical Research
Director, Leukemia Program
Cleveland Clinic, Taussig Cancer Institute
Cleveland, OH
The movement toward minimal residual
disease (MRD) monitoring is in full swing,
but it isn’t a panacea. We look at MRD in
pediatric and adult ALL patients, its role in
signaling a relapse, and how it can help doctors guide treatment.
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rontline Brentuximab Vedotin Leads to
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High Response Rate for Older Hodgkin
Lymphoma Patients 38
New Topical Treatment for Cutaneous
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T-Cell Lymphoma 43
an Shorter Time to Antibiotic AdminC
istration Improve Outcomes in Febrile
Neutropenia? 49
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Beth Faiman, CNP, PhD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Alice Ma, MD
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC
Beating Burnout
The challenges of the modern health-care
environment leave many clinicians feeling
burned out – emotionally and physically
exhausted and dissatisfied in their careers.
How can clinicians avoid burnout, or at least
manage it?
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA
Keith Stewart, MBChB, MBA
Mayo Clinic
Scottsdale, AZ
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American Medical Communications
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Karen Learner, ASH
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