Optimal Care Pathways for myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN)
Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) are cancers that start in the bone marrow, where blood cells are made.
In MPN, the bone marrow makes too many of one or more types of blood cells (red blood cells, white blood cells and/or platelets). These cells change the thickness of the blood. Sometimes they don’t work properly. They also crowd the bone marrow and then it can’t make enough healthy blood cells.
A disease-specific Guide to Best Cancer Care has been developed for the following disease. The guide helps people with cancer to understand the optimal cancer care they should be provided and support people to understand what might happen at each step of their cancer experience and consider what questions to ask.