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“Total Therapy” Possible Cure For Multiple Myeloma?

February 26, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment
Source: 4th European Congress on Hematologic Malignancies, Paris 22-24 February, 2008
Bart Barlogie
Bart Barlogie

Reporting From: 4th European Congress on Hematologic Malignancies, Paris 22-24 February, 2008
BART BARLOGIE, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
A treatment known as “total therapy” could cure many patients with multiple myeloma, conference-goers have just heard. The targeted drugs thalidomide and bortezomib, coupled with tandem autologous transplants, are used by Arkansas-based Bart Barlogie. In Paris he told Peter Goodwin about their success.

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