“…The importance of immune deregulation [35,36] with increasing T-cell exhaustion and tumor immune evasion consequent to defective tumor immune surveillance has been repeatedly underscored as one of the major mechanisms, contributing not only to MPN development and disease progression but also to the development of second cancers and their poorer survival as compared to the same cancers in the background population [30,31,34]. Highly intriguing, other inflammation-mediated comorbidities are also prevalent in MPNs, including much earlier development of drusen and age-related macular degeneration [37][38][39][40][41][42], increased risk of fractures, likely mediated by the chronic inflammatory state [43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50], chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease) [51][52][53][54], and chronic kidney disease [55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65]. Accordingly, patients with MPNs are not only at a constantly increased risk of major thrombosis in, e.g., the brain, heart, lungs, legs and abdominal arteries and veins [11][12][13][14][15] but also at an increased risk of being burdened by inflammation-mediated multimorbidities , including an increased risk of second cancers…”