Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài:Gender and ethnic differences in chronic myelogenous leukemia prognosis and treatment response: a single-institution retrospective study | Journal of Hematology Oncology BioMed Central Research Gender and ethnic differences in chronic myelogenous leukemia prognosis and treatment response a single-institution retrospective study Justin P Lee1 Elliott Birnstein1 David Masiello2 3 Dongyun Yang4 and Allen S Yang 2 3 Open Access Address 1Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California Los Angeles California USA 2Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center USC Los Angeles California USA 3The Jane Anne Nohl Division of Hematology and Center for the Study of Blood Diseases USC Los Angeles California USA and 4Department of Preventive Medicine USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Los Angeles California USA Email Justin P Lee - justinpl@ Elliott Birnstein - birnstei@ David Masiello - masiello@ Dongyun Yang - dyyang@ Allen S Yang - allenyan@ Corresponding author Published 24 July 2009 Received 2 July 2009 Journal of Hematology Oncology 2009 2 30 doi 1756-8722-2-30 Accepted 24 July 2009 This article is available from http content 2 1 30 2009 Lee et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background In the last decade the importance of ethnicity socio-economic and gender differences in relation to disease incidence diagnosis and prognosis has been realized. Differences in these areas have become a major health policy focus in the United States. Our study was undertaken to examine the demographic and clinical features of chronic myelogenous leukemia CML patients presenting initially at the LAC USC Medical Center which serves an ethnically diverse population. Results Patients were evenly split by gender overwhelmingly Hispanic and quite young median age 39 range 17-65 compared with .
