Polycythemia vera (PV) is a type of blood cancer where the bone marrow makes too many red blood cells. It is a form of chronic leukemia that requires treatment to extend a person’s life.

Polycythemia vera is a slow growing blood cancer that happens in your bone marrow, the spongy tissue inside bones. It's usually caused by a gene mutation. Your bone marrow makes red blood cells ...

PV management requires balancing thrombotic risk reduction with quality of life preservation, often involving trade-offs. JAK/STAT pathway activation contributes to chronic inflammation and ...

the possibilities of recombinant erythropoietin overdosing and disorders such as neoplasms and polycythemia vera must be excluded. The present case and others in the literature indicate that the ...

I am a physician-scientist focused on researching and treating blood and bone marrow cancers, including acute myeloid leukemia and the chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms polycythemia vera, essential ...

CATHERINE M. BROOME: Polycythemia vera is a blood disorder that is associated with an increase in production of the red blood cells. But white blood cells and platelets may also be affected.

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband (age 71) received a diagnosis of polycythemia vera a few years ago. I understand this variety of polycythemia isn’t caused by smoking, but we know that smoking does ...

Polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia are the most common chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms; their molecular basis has been appreciated only recently and is briefly discussed in this ...

Severe adverse events included myocardial infarction, infections, and fatigue, but the treatment was deemed to have acceptable toxicity. Among patients with polycythemia vera, the treatment pairing of ...