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We thank Peter Huijgens, currently chairman of the Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL) for initiating the Pharos registry. We thank Tom Wiggers, Wencke de Jager, Sanne Nijssen, and Jolie Cheung for entering patient data in the Pharos database. We thank Marianne van der Mark from the IKNL for retrieving survival data from the Netherlands Cancer Registry. We thank all the hospitals and molecular labs in the Netherlands who participated in the Pharos and Hemobase registries. We thank all Swedish hematologists who have carefully reported CML patients to the CML Registry, in particular the regional coordinators of the Swedish CML registry working group (Berit Markevärn, Ulla Olsson-Strömberg, Leif Stenke, Arta Dreimani, Hans Wadenvik, and Johan Richter). We also appreciate the work of data managers at the respective RCCs.
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Geelen, I.G.P., Sandin, F., Thielen, N. et al. Validation of the EUTOS long-term survival score in a recent independent cohort of “real world” CML patients. Leukemia 32, 2299–2303 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-018-0136-7
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