Multiple myeloma

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Other Authors: Möhler, Thomas (Editor) , Goldschmidt, Hartmut (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Berlin Heidelberg Springer 2011
Series:Recent results in cancer research 183.2011
In: Recent results in cancer research (183.2011)

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Author Notes:Thomas Moehler; Hartmut Goldschmidt (eds.)
Table of Contents:
  • History and epidemiologyHistory of multiple myeloma
  • Epidemiology of multiple myeloma
  • Pathophysiology
  • Molecular pathogenesis of multiple myeloma: chromosomal aberrations, changes in gene expression, cytokine networks, and the bone marrow microenvironment
  • Angiogenesis and vasculogenesis in multiple myeloma: role of inflammatory cells
  • Immunology and immunotherapeutic approaches in multiple myeloma
  • Clinical features
  • Monoclonal gammopathy and smoldering multiple myeloma: diagnosis, staging, prognosis, management
  • Imaging in multiple myeloma
  • Therapy
  • Novel drugs in myeloma: harnessing tumour biology to treat myeloma
  • Firstline treatment and maintenance in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients
  • High-dose therapy and autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation in patients with multiple myeloma
  • Therapy of relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma
  • Allogeneic transplantation in multiple myeloma
  • Radiotherapy
  • Osteoplastic procedures for the treatment of vertebral complications in multiple myeloma patients
  • Supportive therapy in multiple myeloma.