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Opinion|Videos|January 9, 2026

Factors Influencing Treatment Initiation in Lower-Risk MDS

Amer Zeidan, MBBS, discusses factors that can influence the initiation of treatment in lower-risk MDS.

Amer Zeidan, MBBS, outlines key clinical and disease-related factors that influence when to initiate treatment in lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). He discusses considerations such as transfusion burden, symptom severity, molecular features, and patient quality of life. Zeidan explains how individualized decision-making is essential to optimizing outcomes while avoiding overtreatment.

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