Survival of elderly patients with multiple myeloma—Effect of upfront autologous stem cell transplantation
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- 作者：Maximilian Merza ; 1 ; maximilian.merz@med.uni-heidelberg.de" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Lina Jansenb ; 1 ; Felipe A. Castrob ; Jens Hillengassa ; Hans Salwenderc ; Katja Weiseld ; Christof Scheide ; Sabine Luttmannf ; Katharina Emrichg ; Bernd Holleczekh ; Alexander Katalinici ; Alice Nenneckej ; Christian Strakak ; Christian Langerl ; Monika Engelhardtm ; Hermann Einselen ; Nicolaus Krö ; gero ; Dietrich Beelenp ; Peter Dregera ; Hermann Brennerb ; q ; r ; 1 ; Hartmut Goldschmidta ; s ; 1 ; for the GEKID Cancer Survival Working Group ; the DRST2
- 关键词：Multiple myeloma ; Elderly ; Autologous stem cell transplantation ; Population-based survival analysis
- 刊名：European Journal of Cancer
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：July 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：62
- 期：Complete
- 页码：1-8
- 全文大小：740 K
文摘
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Utilisation of autologous transplantation (ASCT) in elderly patients has increased rapidly in the last decade.
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Survival increased strongly in the last decade for the general myeloma population.
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This effect was even more pronounced in elderly patients treated with ASCT.
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ASCT in elderly patients might be a contributor to the seen survival improvement.