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Anthony Hunter, MD, details the primary goals when treating a typical patient with myelofibrosis, such as improving symptoms like weight loss and fatigue, addressing anemia, and, more recently, striving to extend survival, with treatments like JAK inhibitors showing potential for improving overall survival in patients.

Myelofibrosis can be categorized as primary (developing de novo) or secondary (arising in patients with pre-existing MPNs), and it further distinguishes between proliferative and cytopenic types, with each type having its unique diagnostic criteria and implications for treatment.

Anthony Hunter, MD, presents the case of a 76-year-old woman with newly diagnosed primary myelofibrosis with a JAK2 mutation, for which he recommended treatment with momelotinib due to her moderate anemia and refusal of transplant.