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Feasibility of autologous peripheral blood stem cell mobilization and harvest in adult patients with FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leukemia receiving chemotherapy combined with midostaurin: a single-center experience

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This work was supported by grants from the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC), Milan, Italy (IG 20624–2018) (ML); the Progetto di Eccellenza Dipartimento MIUR 2017 (ML); and the “Charity Dinner initiative” in memory of Dr A. Fontana for Associazione Italiana Lotta alle Leucemie, Linfoma e Mieloma (AIL) – Sezione ‘Luciano Pavarotti’– Modena OdV and IRIS Ceramica Group.

This work was also supported by grants from the Fondazione Regionale per la Ricerca Biomedica (PC), Fondazione Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia [Ricerca Corrente 08069113 and 08069119 (PC)], and Fondazione Just Italia (PC).

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FF served on advisory boards for Janssen and Novartis and received travel grants from Jazz Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi. ML served on advisory boards for Novartis, AbbVie, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Gilead Sci., MSD, Sanofi, Daiichi-Sankyo, and Grifols and received travel grants from Gilead Sci and Sanofi. RobMar received research funding from Janssen and Gilead Sciences and honoraria from Gilead Sciences, Janssen, Abbvie, Roche, and Shire. The other authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.

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Cordella, S., Parisotto, A., Bettelli, F. et al. Feasibility of autologous peripheral blood stem cell mobilization and harvest in adult patients with FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leukemia receiving chemotherapy combined with midostaurin: a single-center experience. Ann Hematol 102, 213–217 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-022-05013-4

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