Fortuitous discovery of an NPM1 mutation in a myelodysplastic syndrome.

The article presents a case study of 39-year-old woman with no history of previous disease presented with asthenia, anorexia, and headache and her complete blood count showed a normocytic anemia. It mentions a diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome with excess blasts-2 (MDS EB-2); and also mentions need to be treated by intensive chemotherapy.