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SUBMITTER: Kumar SK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4000285 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kumar S K SK Dispenzieri A A Lacy M Q MQ Gertz M A MA Buadi F K FK Pandey S S Kapoor P P Dingli D D Hayman S R SR Leung N N Lust J J McCurdy A A Russell S J SJ Zeldenrust S R SR Kyle R A RA Rajkumar S V SV
Leukemia 20131025 5
Therapy for multiple myeloma (MM) has markedly changed in the past decade with the introduction of new drugs, but it is not clear whether the improvements have been sustained. We studied 1038 patients diagnosed between 2001 and 2010, grouping patients into two 5-year periods by diagnosis, 2001-2005 and 2006-2010. The median estimated follow-up for the cohort was 5.9 years with 47% alive at the last follow-up. The median overall survival (OS) for the entire cohort was 5.2 years: 4.6 years for pat ...[more]