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SUBMITTER: Gonsalves WI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7724649 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gonsalves Wilson I WI Jevremovic Dragan D Nandakumar Bharat B Dispenzieri Angela A Buadi Francis K FK Dingli David D Lacy Martha Q MQ Hayman Suzanne R SR Kapoor Prashant P Leung Nelson N Fonder Amie A Hobbs Miriam M Hwa Yi Lisa YL Muchtar Eli E Warsame Rahma R Kourelis Taxiarchis V TV Russell Stephen S Lust John A JA Lin Yi Y Go Ronald S RS Siddiqui Mustaqeem A MA Kyle Robert A RA Gertz Morie A MA Rajkumar S Vincent SV Kumar Shaji K SK
American journal of hematology 20200108 3
Our prior studies identified the prognostic significance of quantifying cPCs by multiparametric flow cytometry (MFC) in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) patients. We evaluated if a similar quantification of cPCs could add prognostic value to the current R-ISS classification of 556 consecutive NDMM patients seen at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester from 2009 to 2017. Those patients that had ≥5 cPCs/μL and either R-ISS stage I or stage II disease were re-classified as R-ISS IIB stage for the purpo ...[more]