My Treatment Approach: Expert Insights Into the Management of Polycythemia Vera

Joe Scandura, MD, PhD, reviews how he approaches risk assessment in patients with polycythemia vera and how risk score helps to determine treatment.

Dr Joe Scandura discusses how he considers risk of disease progression when during therapeutic decision making for a patient with polycythemia vera.

John Mascarenhas, MD, and Joe Scandura, MD, PhD, detail the typical presentation of a patient with polycythemia vera in their clinical practices.

Experts explain the critical importance of obtaining bone marrow biopsies for accurately diagnosing polycythemia vera.

Key opinion leaders discuss their treatment targets for low- and high-risk patients with polycythemia vera.

Joe Scandura, MD, PhD, explains how he considers individual symptom burden when deciding on a treatment regimen for a patient with polycythemia vera.

Drs John Mascarenhas and Joe Scandura review the toxicities seen with the non-specific chemotherapeutic agent hydroxyurea in patients with polycythemia vera.

Joe Scandura, MD, PhD, summarizes the toxicity profile of interferon therapy in patients with polycythemia vera.

Experts review critical trial data in the treatment of patients with polycythemia vera.

Drs Joe Scandura and John Mascarenhas discuss their treatment approaches for high-risk patients with polycythemia vera.

Joe Scandura, MD, PhD, explains how a patient with polycythemia vera and driver mutations responds to interferon treatment.

Key opinion leaders discuss data on the use of ruxolitinib in patients with polycythemia vera.

John Mascarenhas, MD, and Joe Scandura, MD, PhD, close their discussion by highlighting what to look forward to in the future of polycythemia vera treatment.