Escalating doses of bortezomib with high-dose melphalan were evaluated with stem cell rescue for multiple myeloma
Thirty-two patients were enrolled; 14 received bortezomib with high-dose melphalan as a second of tandem and 18 as a salvage autologous stem cell transplantation
Bortezomib with high-dose melphalan autologous stem cell transplantation was well tolerated without emergent or increasing peripheral neuropathy.
The most common grade 3 or 4 nonhematologic adverse events were neutropenic fever (25%) and nausea (18.8%)
Two-year overall survival and progression-free survival were 76% and 39%, respectively, with a median follow-up of 31.7 months.