Autologous transplantation and maintenance therapy in multiple myeloma.

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Published in N Engl J Med on September 04, 2014

Authors

Antonio Palumbo1, Federica Cavallo, Francesca Gay, Francesco Di Raimondo, Dina Ben Yehuda, Maria Teresa Petrucci, Sara Pezzatti, Tommaso Caravita, Chiara Cerrato, Elena Ribakovsky, Mariella Genuardi, Anna Cafro, Magda Marcatti, Lucio Catalano, Massimo Offidani, Angelo Michele Carella, Elena Zamagni, Francesca Patriarca, Pellegrino Musto, Andrea Evangelista, Giovannino Ciccone, Paola Omedé, Claudia Crippa, Paolo Corradini, Arnon Nagler, Mario Boccadoro, Michele Cavo

Author Affiliations

1: From the Myeloma Unit, Division of Hematology, University of Turin (A.P., F.C., F.G., C. Cerrato, M.G., P.O., M.B.), and Unit of Clinical Epidemiology and Centro di Referimento per l'Epidemiologia-Piemonte, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino (A.E., G.C.), Turin, Division of Hematology, Ospedale Ferrarotto, Azienda Policlinico-Ospedale Vittorio Emanuele, University of Catania, Catania (F.D.R.), Hematology, Sapienza University of Rome (M.T.P.), and Cattedra di Ematologia, Ospedale S. Eugenio-University Tor Vergata (T.C.), Rome, Divisione di Ematologia, Ospedale S. Gerardo, Monza (S.P.), La Struttura Complessa di Ematologia, Dipartimento di Ematologia ed Oncologia, Azienda Ospedaliera Niguarda Ca' Granda (A.C.), Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute (M.M.), and Division of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori-University of Milan (P.C.), Milan, Ematologia, Policlinico Federico II, Naples (L.C.), Clinica di Ematologia, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona, Ancona (M.O.), Unità Operativa Complessa Ematologia 1, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Martino-Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa (A.M.C.), Seràgnoli Institute of Hematology, Bologna University School of Medicine, Bologna (E.Z., M.C.), Clinica Ematologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche Sperimentali e Cliniche, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria di Udine, Udine (F.P.), Scientific Direction, IRCCS, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico della Basilicata, Rionero in Vulture (P.M.), and Struttura Complessa Ematologia e Dipartimento Oncologia Medica, Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia (C. Crippa) - all in Italy; and the Hematology Division, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem (D.B.Y.), and the Hematology Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer (E.R., A.N.) - both in Israel.

Associated clinical trials:

Lenalidomide Melphalan and Prednisone Versus High Dose Melphalan in Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Patients (MPRvsMEL200) | NCT00551928

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