Anne Sophie Kubasch1,2,3*, Aristoteles Giagounidis1,3,4, Georgia Metzgeroth5*, Anna Jonasova, MD, PhD6*, Regina Herbst, MD7*, Jose Miguel Torregrosa Diaz8*, Benoit De Renzis, MD9*, Katharina S. Götze1,3,10,11, Marie-Luise Huetter-Kroenke, MD12*, Marie-Pierre Gourin13*, Bohrane Slama, MD14*, Sophie Dimicoli-Salazar, MD15*, Pascale Cony-Makhoul, MD16*, Kamel Laribi, MD17*, Sophie Park, MD, PhD18*, Katja Jersemann19*, Dorothea Schipp20*, Klaus H. Metzeler, MD21, Oliver Tiebel, MD22*, Katja Sockel, MD1,23*, Silke Gloaguen, Msc1,3*, Anna Mies24*, Fatiha Chermat25*, Christian Thiede, MD24, Rosa Sapena26*, Richard F. Schlenk27,28, Pierre Fenaux, MD, PhD3,29,30, Uwe Platzbecker, MD1,3,31 and Lionel Ades, MD, PhD3,25,30
1German MDS Study Group (D-MDS), Leipzig, Germany
2Department of Hematology, Cellular Therapy and Hemostaseology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
3The European Myelodysplastic Syndromes Cooperative Group (EMSCO), Leipzig, Germany
4Department of Oncology, Hematology and Palliative Care, Marienhospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
5Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Centre,, Mannheim, Germany
6Charles University General Hospital 1st Department of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
7Department of Internal Medicine III, Klinikum Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
8Department of Hematology and Oncology, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, FRA
9Service d'Hématologie Clinique Adulte, Clermont Ferrand, FRA
10Department of Medicine III, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
11German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
12Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
13CHU Limoges, Limoges, FRA
14Oncologie Médicale-Hématologie Clinique, Centre Hospitalier Departemental, Avignon, France
15University Hospital Bordeaux, Pessac, France
16Service d'Hématologie, Centre Hospitalier Annecy-Genevois, Pringy, France
17Centre Hospitalier Du Mans, Le Mans, France
18Department of Hematology, CHU Grenoble, Grenoble Cedex 9, France
19GWT-TUD GmbH, Dresden, Germany
20DS-Statistics, Rosenthal-Bielatal, Germany
21Laboratory for Leukemia Diagnostics, Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
22Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Faculty, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
23Dept. of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Dresden, Germany
24Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
25Service d'Hématologie Séniors, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
26Groupe Francophone des Myélodysplasies, Paris, France
27Department of Internal Medicine V, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
28German Cancer Research Center, NCT-clinical trials office, Heidelberg, Germany
29Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
30Groupe Francophone des Myélodysplasies (GFM), Paris, France
31Hematology and Cellular Therapy, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany