Cell Transplants
Stem cell transplantation increases survival in some patients with advanced multiple myeloma
Published in Blood Weekly, August 3rd, 2006
According to a recent study from Australia, "We aimed to review the long-term outcome of myeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) performed for multiple myeloma (MM) at our institution.
"Records of all patients who received standard myeloablative allogeneic SCT for MM were retrospectively reviewed. Overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), and event-free survival (EFS) were calculated using the Kaplan-Meier method."
"In total 37 transplants had been performed. Median...
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