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Meeting report of the 5th Heidelberg Myeloma Workshop: current status and developments in diagnosis and therapy of multiple myeloma

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Abstract

Purpose

The 5th Heidelberg Myeloma Workshop was held on April 24 and 25, 2015, in the lecture hall of the department of internal medicine of the University Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany.

Methods and Results

Main topics of the meeting were (1) new insights into biology of plasma cell diseases, (2) familial risk in multiple myeloma (MM), (3) diagnosis and prognostic factors in MM and early plasma cell diseases, (4) frontline therapy in transplant-eligible and (5) transplant-ineligible patients as well as (6) treatment of relapsed disease.

Conclusion

Better understanding of disease biology led to tremendous changes in the treatment of multiple myeloma in recent years and were reported during the meeting.

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  1. Department of Hematology, Oncology and Rheumatology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Maximilian Merz, Jens Hillengass & Hartmut Goldschmidt

  2. National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg, Germany

    Hartmut Goldschmidt

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  1. Maximilian Merz
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Correspondence to Maximilian Merz.

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Merz, M., Hillengass, J. & Goldschmidt, H. Meeting report of the 5th Heidelberg Myeloma Workshop: current status and developments in diagnosis and therapy of multiple myeloma. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 142, 247–251 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00432-015-1993-3

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