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How do you approach management for CCUS with severe cytopenias?

Bone marrow biopsy does not meet criteria for MDS and no other identifiable cause of the cytopenias.
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Hematology · Johns Hopkins University
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This is a very timely question since CCUS is now much better defined. CCUS (Clonal cytopenia of undetermined significance) is not a new syndrome, it is a subset of myelodysplasia (MDS), both of which as late as 1983, were actually known as: "Preleukemia". CCUS is an uncommon form of MDS, which has v...

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