What is Mastocytosis?
Systemic mastocytosis is also a stem cell disease of the bone marrow but differs from other myeloproliferative neoplasms. Mastocytes, which come from hematopoietic stem cells, can become neoplastic and mutate in various ways manifesting in places such as the skin, airways, or GI tract resulting in the need for different treatment methods than the mainstream MPNs. Mastocytosis disorders have been classified in a range from indolent systemic mastocytosis to mast cell leukemia with several other types in between. When a diagnosis is made, most patients are found in the indolent stage, which is the best prognosis category, and can remain that way for much of their lives. Patients receiving treatment for systemic mastocytosis will receive care from not only MPN specialists, but also the top allergists, gastroenterologists, neurologists, and psychiatrists in order to best handle symptoms.
Learn more: https://silvermpncenter.weill.....cornell.edu/patients
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