| 11. | This is in contrast with myelofibrosis that develops secondary to polycythemia vera or essential thrombocythaemia.
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| 12. | Older terms include " myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia " and " agnogenic myeloid metaplasia ".
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| 13. | Myelofibrosis is an extremely rare and fatal disease afflicting some 3, 000 people a year.
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| 14. | A marrow aspirate is difficult to obtain in many cases because of variable degree of myelofibrosis.
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| 15. | He died of myelofibrosis and was survived by his daughter Julia and mother Rose Apter Weinberg.
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| 16. | He died in 2012 after a 5-year struggle with the blood disorder autoimmune myelofibrosis.
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| 17. | Alderson died at his home in Marina Del Rey, California, due to complications from myelofibrosis.
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| 18. | The V617F mutation to the JAK2 protein is found in approximately half of individuals with primary myelofibrosis.
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| 19. | Primary myelofibrosis can begin with a blood picture similar to that found in polycythemia vera or chronic myelogenous leukemia.
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| 20. | In primary myelofibrosis, progressive scarring, or fibrosis, of the bone marrow occurs, for the reasons outlined above.
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