Understanding polycythemia vera (PV): Diagnosis, treatments and follow-up care

PV is a type of myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN). This group of blood cancers features too many blood cells of a particular type made in the bone marrow. MPNs begin with one or more changes to the DNA of a single stem cell in the bone marrow. These changes cause the stem cell to create more and more abnormal stem cells.

In this 1-hour live webcast, Dr. Sonia Cerquozzi will review this type of MPN, diagnosis, treatment options and aspects of follow-up care.

Dr. Sonia Cerquozzi

Dr. Sonia Cerquozzi is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary. She completed her Internal Medicine and Hematology training at the University of Calgary in 2015. She proceeded to an advanced hematology fellowship in myeloid disorders at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota with a clinical and research focus in myeloproliferative neoplasms. She has been at the University of Calgary since January 2017 and has a myeloid malignancy practice at both the Tom Baker Cancer Centre (academic) and Peter Lougheed Centre (community) with clinical and research interests in MPNs including rarer disorders such as systemic mastocytosis.