Risk of progression and survival in multiple myeloma relapsing after therapy with IMiDs and bortezomib: A multicenter international myeloma working group study (original) (raw)
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Authors and Affiliations
- Divison of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
S K Kumar & S V Rajkumar - Division of Hemato-Oncology, Gachon University Gil Hospital, Incheon, Republic of Korea
J H Lee - Department of Hematology, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
J J Lahuerta - Department of Hematology, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, UK
G Morgan - Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
P G Richardson & J Feather - Cancer Research & Biostatistics, Seattle, WA, USA
J Crowley, J Haessler & A Hoering - Division of Hematology, University Hospital Hotel-Dieu, Nantes, France
P Moreau - Service du Maladies du Sang, Hopital Claude Huriez, CHU, Lille, France
X LeLeu - Service D’hématologie CHU, Nancy, France
C Hulin - Department of Hematology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
S K Klein & P Sonneveld - Medical Oncology, Hackensack University Medical Center, The Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ, USA
D Siegel - Hematology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
J Bladé - Hematology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
H Goldschmidt - Medical Oncology, Mt. Sinai Cancer Institute, New York, NY, USA
S Jagannath - Servico de Hematologia, Hospital Universario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
J S Miguel - University of Texas/MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
R Orlowski - Department of Hematology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
A Palumbo - Department of Hematology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
O Sezer - Cedars-Sinai Outpatient Cancer Center at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
B G M Durie
Authors
- S K Kumar
- J H Lee
- J J Lahuerta
- G Morgan
- P G Richardson
- J Crowley
- J Haessler
- J Feather
- A Hoering
- P Moreau
- X LeLeu
- C Hulin
- S K Klein
- P Sonneveld
- D Siegel
- J Bladé
- H Goldschmidt
- S Jagannath
- J S Miguel
- R Orlowski
- A Palumbo
- O Sezer
- S V Rajkumar
- B G M Durie
Consortia
on behalf of the International Myeloma Working Group
International Myeloma Working Group
- Niels Abildgaard
- , Rafat Abonour
- , Ray Alexanian
- , Melissa Alsina
- , Kenneth, C Anderson
- , Michael Attal
- , Hervé Avet-Loiseau
- , Ashraf Badros
- , Dalsu Baris
- , Bart Barlogie
- , Régis Bataille
- , Meral Beksaç
- , Andrew Belch
- , Dina Ben-Yehuda
- , Bill Bensinger
- , P Leif Bergsagel
- , Jenny Bird
- , Joan Bladé
- , Mario Boccadoro
- , Michele Cavo
- , Asher Chanan-Khan
- , Wen Ming Chen
- , Tony Child
- , James Chim
- , Wee-Joo Chng
- , Ray Comenzo
- , John Crowley
- , William Dalton
- , Faith Davies
- , Cármino de Souza
- , Michel Delforge
- , Meletios Dimopoulos
- , Angela Dispenzieri
- , Johannes Drach
- , Matthew Drake
- , Brian G M Durie
- , Hermann Einsele
- , Theirry Facon
- , Dorotea Fantl
- , Jean-Paul Fermand
- , Rafael Fonseca
- , Gösta Gahrton
- , Ramón García-Sanz
- , Christina Gasparetto
- , Morie Gertz
- , John Gibson
- , Sergio Giralt
- , Hartmut Goldschmidt
- , Philip Greipp
- , Roman Hajek
- , Izhar Hardan
- , Parameswaran Hari
- , Jean-Luc Harousseau
- , Hiroyuki Hata
- , Yutaka Hattori
- , Tom Heffner
- , Joy Ho
- , Vania Hungria
- , Shinsuke Ida
- , Peter Jacobs
- , Sundar Jagannath
- , Hans Johnsen
- , Hou Jian
- , Douglas Joshua
- , Artur Jurczyszyn
- , Michio Kawano
- , Nicolaus Kröger
- , Shaji Kumar
- , Robert A Kyle
- , Martha Lacy
- , Juan José Lahuerta
- , Ola Landgren
- , Jacob Laubach
- , Jae Hoon Lee
- , Xavier LeLeu
- , Suzanne Lentzsch
- , Henk Lokhorst
- , Sagar Lonial
- , Heinz Ludwig
- , Angelo Maiolino
- , María Mateos
- , Jayesh Mehta
- , Ulf-Henrik Mellqvist
- , GiamPaolo Merlini
- , Joseph Mikhael
- , Angelina Rodríguez Morales
- , Philippe Moreau
- , Gareth Morgan
- , Hareth Nari
- , Nikhil Munshi
- , Ruben Niesvizky
- , Amara Nouel
- , Yana Novis
- , Robert Orlowski
- , Antonio Palumbo
- , Santiago Pavlovsky
- , Linda Pilarski
- , Raymond Powles
- , Noopur Raje
- , S Vincent Rajkumar
- , Donna Reece
- , Tony Reiman
- , Paul G Richardson
- , David Roodman
- , Laura Rosiñol
- , Jesús San Miguel
- , Orhan Sezer
- , Jatin J Shah
- , John Shaughnessy
- , Kazuyuki Shimizu
- , Chaim Shustik
- , David Siegel
- , Seema Singhal
- , Pieter Sonneveld
- , Andrew Spencer
- , Edward Stadtmauer
- , Keith Stewart
- , Evangelos Terpos
- , Patrizia Tosi
- , Guido Tricot
- , Ingemar Turesson
- , Ben Van Camp
- , Brian Van Ness
- , Ivan Van Riet
- , Isabelle Vande Broek
- , Karin Vanderkerken
- , Robert Vescio
- , David Vesole
- , Anders Waage
- , Michael Wang
- , Donna Weber
- , Jan Westin
- , Keith Wheatley
- & Jeffrey Zonder
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JJL is on the Scientific advisory boards of Celgene and Janssen-Cilag. PGR and JSM are Advisory board participants for Celgene, Millenium, Johnson and Johnson. DS is on the Speakers Bureau and BD is an Advisory board participant for Celgene and Millenium. AP is an Advisory Board participant for Celgene, Johnson and Johnson. JB has received Honoraria for lectures and advisory boards from Celgene, Jansen Cilag and Grant support from Celgene and Jansen-Cilag. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Niels Abildgaard, Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark Rafat Abonour, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Ray Alexanian, MD Anderson, Houston, Texas, USA Melissa Alsina, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA Kenneth C. Anderson, DFCI, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Michael Attal, Purpan Hospital, Toulouse, France Hervé Avet-Loiseau, Institute de Biologie, Nantes, France Ashraf Badros, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Dalsu Baris, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Bart Barlogie, M.I.R.T. UAMS Little Rock, Arkanas, USA Régis Bataille, Institute de Biologie, Nantes, France Meral Beksaç, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey Andrew Belch, Cross Cancer Institute, Alberta, Canada Dina Ben-Yehuda, Hadassah University Hospital, Hadassah, Israel Bill Bensinger, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, USA P. Leif Bergsagel, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA Jenny Bird, Bristol Haematology and Oncology Center, Bristol, UK Joan Bladé, Hospital Clinica, Barcelona, Spain Mario Boccadoro, University of Torino, Torino, Italy Michele Cavo, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Asher Chanan-Khan, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York USA Wen Ming Chen, MM Research Center of Beijing, Beijing, China Tony Child, Leeds General Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom James Chim, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Wee-Joo Chng, National University Health System, Singapore Ray Comenzo, Tufts Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA John Crowley, Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, Washington, USA William Dalton, H. Lee Moffitt, Tampa, Florida, USA Faith Davies, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, England Cármino de Souza, Univeridade de Campinas, Caminas, Brazil Michel Delforge, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium Meletios Dimopoulos, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece Angela Dispenzieri, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Johannes Drach, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Matthew Drake, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Brian G.M. Durie, Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, USA Hermann Einsele, Universitätsklinik Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany Theirry Facon, Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Lille, Lille, France Dorotea Fantl, Socieded Argentinade Hematolgia, Buenos Aires, Argentina Jean-Paul Fermand, Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France Rafael Fonseca, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA Gösta Gahrton, Karolinska Institute for Medicine, Huddinge, Sweden Ramón García-Sanz, University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain Christina Gasparetto, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA Morie Gertz, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA John Gibson, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia Sergio Giralt, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA Hartmut Goldschmidt, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Philip Greipp, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Roman Hajek, Brno University, Brno, Czech Republic Izhar Hardan, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Parameswaran Hari, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Jean-Luc Harousseau, Institute de Biologie, Nantes, France Hiroyuki Hata, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan Yutaka Hattori, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan Tom Heffner, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Joy Ho, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia Vania Hungria, Clinica San Germano, Sao Paolo, Brazil Shinsuke Ida, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya, Japan Peter Jacobs, Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic, Plumstead, South Africa Sundar Jagannath, Mt. Sinai Cancer Institute, New York, New York, USA Hans E Johnsen, AHSIC Aarhus University, Aalbor, Denmark Hou Jian, Shanghai Chang Zheng Hospital, Shanghai, China Douglas Joshua, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia Artur Jurczyszyn, The Myeloma Treatment Foundation, Poland Michio Kawano, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Japan Nicolaus Kröger, University Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Shaji Kumar, Department of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA Robert A. Kyle, Department of Laboratory Med. and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA Martha Lacy, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Juan José Lahuerta, Grupo Español di Mieloma, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain Ola Landgren, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Jacob Laubach, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Jae Hoon Lee, Gachon University Gil Hospital, Incheon, Korea Xavier LeLeu, Hospital Huriez, CHRU Lille, France Suzanne Lentzsch, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Henk Lokhorst, University Medical CenterUtrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Sagar Lonial, Emory University Medical School, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Heinz Ludwig, Wilhelminenspital Der Stat Wien, Vienna, Austria Angelo Maiolino, Rua fonte da Saudade, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil María Mateos, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain Jayesh Mehta, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA Ulf-Henrik Mellqvist, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden GiamPaolo Merlini, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy Joseph Mikhael, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA Angelina Rodríguez Morales, Bonco Metro Politano de Sangre, Caracas, Venezuela Philippe Moreau, University Hospital, Nantes, France Gareth Morgan, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, England Hareth Nari, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Nikhil Munshi, Diane Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Ruben Niesvizky, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA Amara Nouel, Hospital Rutz y Paez, Bolivar, Venezuela Yana Novis, Hospital SírioLibanês, Bela Vista, Brazil Robert Orlowski, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA Antonio Palumbo, Cathedra Ematologia, Torino, Italy Santiago Pavlovsky, Fundaleu, Buenos Aires, Argentina Linda Pilarski, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada Raymond Powles, Leukemia & Myeloma, Wimbledon, England Noopur Raje, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA S. Vincent Rajkumar, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Donna Reece, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada Tony Reiman, Cross Cancer Institute, Alberta, Canada Paul G. Richardson, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA David Roodman, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA Laura Rosiñol, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain Jesús San Miguel, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain Orhan Sezer, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Jatin J. Shah, MD Anderson Cancer Institute, Houston, Texas, USA John Shaughnessy, M.I.R.T. UAMS, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA Kazuyuki Shimizu, Nagoya City Midori General Hospital, Nagoya, Japan Chaim Shustik, McGill University, Montreal, Canada David Siegel, Hackensack, Cancer Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA Seema Singhal, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA Pieter Sonneveld, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Andrew Spencer, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia Edward Stadtmauer, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Keith Stewart, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA Evangelos Terpos, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece Patrizia Tosi, Italian Cooperative Group, Istituto di Ematologia Seragnoli, Bologna, Italy Guido Tricot, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Ingemar Turesson, SKANE University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden Ben Van Camp, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium Brian Van Ness, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Ivan Van Riet, Brussels Vrija University, Brussels, Belgium Isabelle Vande Broek, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium Karin Vanderkerken, Vrije University Brussels VUB, Brussels, Belgium Robert Vescio, Cedars-Sinai Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, USA David Vesole, Hackensack Cancer Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA Anders Waage, University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway NSMG Michael Wang, MD Anderson, Houston, Texas, USA Donna Weber, MD Anderson, Houston, Texas, USA Jan Westin, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden Keith Wheatley, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Jeffrey Zonder, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Kumar, S., Lee, J., Lahuerta, J. et al. Risk of progression and survival in multiple myeloma relapsing after therapy with IMiDs and bortezomib: A multicenter international myeloma working group study.Leukemia 26, 149–157 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2011.196
- Received: 27 December 2010
- Revised: 30 May 2011
- Accepted: 28 June 2011
- Published: 29 July 2011
- Issue date: January 2012
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2011.196