Part II: Role of maintenance therapy in transplant-ineligible patients

JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 43-49

  Palumbo, Antonio ^a   Mina, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BORTEZOMIB; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; LENALIDOMIDE; MELPHALAN; PREDNISONE; THALIDOMIDE;

ANEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HUMAN; INFECTION; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEUTROPENIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84874603520     PISSN: 15401405     EISSN: 15401413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2013.0007     Document Type: Review

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