Second Primary Malignancies and Myeloma Therapy: Fad or Fact?

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  • Saad Z. Usmani
چکیده

The risk adaptive therapy approach within low risk patients may involve limiting post-transplant IMiD exposure in patients who have a higher potential for SPM development. It may well be that we are looking at the tip of the iceberg in the year 2012 and SPMs may emerge as an important long-term sequela with further follow-up.

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دوره 3  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2012