Achievement of at Least Very Good Partial Response Is a Simple and Robust Prognostic Factor in Patients With Multiple Myeloma Treated With High-Dose Therapy: Long-Term Analysis of the IFM 99-02 and 99-04 Trials
- 1 December 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Vol. 27 (34) , 5720-5726
- https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2008.21.1060
Abstract
Purpose The prognostic impact of complete response (CR) achievement in multiple myeloma (MM) has been shown mostly in the context of autologous stem-cell transplantation. Other levels of response h...Keywords
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