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SUBMITTER: Usmani SZ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3591801 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Usmani Saad Z SZ Mitchell Alan A Waheed Sarah S Crowley John J Hoering Antje A Petty Nathan N Brown Tracy T Bartel Twyla T Anaissie Elias E van Rhee Frits F Barlogie Bart B
Blood 20130110 10
Prognostic implications of 3 imaging tools, metastatic bone survey, magnetic resonance imaging, and positron emission tomography (PET), were evaluated in 2 consecutive Total Therapy 3 trials for newly diagnosed myeloma. Data including PET at baseline and on day 7 of induction as well as standard prognostic factors were available in 302 patients of whom 277 also had gene expression profiling (GEP)-derived risk information. According to multivariate analysis, more than 3 focal lesions on day 7 imp ...[more]