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What is your perioperative approach to holding and restarting hydroxyurea in patients with essential thrombocythemia?

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Do you hold hydroxyurea with surgery in ET patients?

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Hematology · Johns Hopkins University
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I would like to rephrase the question since as written, the assumption is that hydroxyurea is a preferred therapy for ET, when any careful reading of the literature will show that there is no proven rationale for using chemotherapy of any sort routinely in ET. There is no association between the pla...

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