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Contents Haematological Malignancies


Treatment Options for Myelodysplastic Syndromes Hillary Prescott,1


Elias Jabbour,2 Jeffrey Bryan1 200 and Hagop Kantarjian3


1. Clinical Pharmacy Specialist; 2. Assistant Professor; 3. Chair, Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center


Novel Therapy of Relapsed and Refractory Classical Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Enrico Derenzini,1


Daniela Buglio1 and Anas Younes2


1. Postdoctoral Fellow; 2. Professor, Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center


Transplantation


Allogeneic Haematopoietic Stem Cell Donation – Current Status with Regard to Safety Alberto Bosi1


and Benedetta Bartolozzi1


1. Full Professor of Haematology; 2. Fellow, Department of Haematology, Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, University of Florence


Thalassaemia


Thalassaemia as a Hypercoagulable State Maria D Cappellini,1


Khaled M Musallam2 214 and Ali T Taher3


1. Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS “Ca’ Granda” Ospedale Policlinico, University of Milan; 2. Clinical Research Fellow; 3. Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology–Oncology Division, American University of Beirut Medical Center


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Erratum First Published: European Oncology & Haematology, 2011;7(2):109–15


The Evolving Role of Chemotherapy and Predictive Markers in Early-stage Non-small-cell Lung Cancer


Eric W Humke1 and Heather Wakelee2


1. Instructor of Medicine; 2. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford University School of Medicine


In the original article, Figures 6 and 7 contained minor errors. The corrected figures are published below. European Oncology & Haematology regrets these errors and would like to extend its apologies to the authors.


Figure 6: TASTE Trial Overview


Eligible: n=108


Resected II–IIIA non-N2


Histology other than squamous cell


Cisplatin/pemetrexed x 4 cycles


Stratified:


• ERCC1 levels • EGFR status • Chemotherapy regimen


Randomised


EGFR mutant EGFR wild-type


High ERCC1 Low ERCC1


Erlotinib 150 mg PO every day x 1 year


Observation


Cisplatin/ pemetrexed x 4 cycles


Primary end-point: feasibility followed by disease-free survival. EGFR = epidermal growth factor receptor; PO = orally; TASTE = Tailored post-surgical therapy in early stage NSCLC.


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No prior chemotherapy No prior XRT


Figure 7: SCAT Trial Overview


Eligible: n=432


Resected II–IIIA


Cisplatin/docetaxel x 4 cycles


Stratified:


• BRCA mRNA • Adjuvant chemotherapy


High BRCA1 Medium BRCA1 Low BRCA1


Randomised


Docetaxel 4 x cycles


Cisplatin/docetaxel x 4 cycles


Cisplatin/ gemcitabine x 4 cycles


Primary end-point: overall survival. BRCA1 = Breast cancer 1; mRNA = messenger RNA; SCAT = Spanish customised adjuvant trial; XRT = radiotherapy.


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