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. 2014 May 15;123(20):3061-2.
doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-04-565317.

Down to the bitter end

Sagar Lonial  1 , Charise Gleason  1
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Down to the bitter end

Sagar Lonial et al. Blood. .
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Abstract

"The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet," comes to us from Shakespeare’s Richard II, but in the most recent edition of Blood, the paper from Martinez-Lopez et al suggests that by using minimal residual disease (MRD) testing by sequencing, we may be nearing the "end most sweet" or, in 21st century vernacular, the cure of myeloma.

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  • Prognostic value of deep sequencing method for minimal residual disease detection in multiple myeloma.
    Martinez-Lopez J, Lahuerta JJ, Pepin F, González M, Barrio S, Ayala R, Puig N, Montalban MA, Paiva B, Weng L, Jiménez C, Sopena M, Moorhead M, Cedena T, Rapado I, Mateos MV, Rosiñol L, Oriol A, Blanchard MJ, Martínez R, Bladé J, San Miguel J, Faham M, García-Sanz R. Martinez-Lopez J, et al. Blood. 2014 May 15;123(20):3073-9. doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-01-550020. Epub 2014 Mar 19. Blood. 2014. PMID: 24646471 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.

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