Myeloma

Investigators at Taipei Veterans General Hospital target myeloma

Published in Cancer Weekly, December 25th, 2007

According to recent research published in the Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology, "The impact of coagulopathy on survival of patients with myeloma has not been studied in detail. We aimed to assess the correlation between activated partial thromboplastin time/prothrombin time at diagnosis and overall survival in myeloma patients."

"Data including activated partial thromboplastin time and prothrombin time obtained before treatment and at the time of diagnosis of multiple myeloma (excluding monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, POEMS syndrome, IgM myeloma and myeloma with amyloidosis) collected from 222 patients were analyzed. Twenty-one patients...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-12-25)

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