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Is It Time to Abandon Up-Front Transplantation in Multiple Myeloma?
Is It Time to Abandon Up-Front Transplantation in Multiple Myeloma?
P Wendling
20100607
2010 Jul 7
Elsevier Global Medical News
Is It Time to Abandon Up-Front Transplantation in Multiple Myeloma?
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2010 Jul 7, P Wendling
CHICAGO (EGMN) - The success of new combinations of novel agents in clinical trials has some experts wondering whether stem cell transplantation will still be necessary as frontline treatment for multiple myeloma.Updated results from the first randomized phase III trial to address this question did not show significant differences in outcomes between groups of young patients assigned to transplantation or to a novel combination, investigators reported at the annual meeting of the American Society...