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Three organizations spent a great amount of time, effort, and money writing clinical practice guidelines for the use of erythroid-stimulating agents (ESAs). The American Society of Hematology and American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASH/ASCO) panel was convened by these respective professional societies in the United States and a guideline was written in 2002 [1] and an update was published January 1, 2008 (called the 2007 update) [2]. The European equivalent professional society, European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), wrote their original guideline in 2004 and updated their ESA guideline in January 2007 [3].
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Lichtin, A.E. (2010). Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Use of Erythroid-Stimulating Agents: ASCO, EORTC, NCCN. In: Lyman, G., Dale, D. (eds) Hematopoietic Growth Factors in Oncology. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 157. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7073-2_14
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