Do older patients truly benefit from advances in myeloma care?

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hematology Department, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. rmoshg@hadassah.org.il.
² Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Hematology department, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.

Editorial

Moshe E Gatt et al. Haematologica. 2023.

. 2023 Jun 1;108(6):1470-1472.

doi: 10.3324/haematol.2022.281897.

¹ Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hematology Department, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. rmoshg@hadassah.org.il.
² Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Hematology department, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.

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Improved survival in myeloma patients-a nationwide registry study of 4,647 patients ≥75 years treated in Denmark and Sweden.
Moore KLF, Turesson I, Genell A, Klausen TW, Knut-Bojanowska D, Redder L, Sverrisdottir I, Thorsen J, Vangsted AJ, Blimark CH. Moore KLF, et al. Haematologica. 2023 Jun 1;108(6):1640-1651. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2021.280424. Haematologica. 2023. PMID: 36300775 Free PMC article.

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