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Trial reportLeukemia2007

Thalidomide in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma: influence of thalidomide treatment on peripheral blood stem cell collection yield.

I Breitkreutz, H M Lokhorst, M S Raab, B van der Holt, F W Cremer, D Herrmann, A Glasmacher, I G H Schmidt-Wolf, I W Blau, H Martin and 4 more

Abstract readClinical Trial, Phase IIIMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Leukemia, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Peaks and Distortions: Evaluation of Irregularities in Capillary Serum Protein Electrophoresis-An Institutional Experience of 980 Cases From Bihar.Indian journal of hematology & blood transfusion : an official journal of Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion · 2025
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  7. Autologous Stem Cell Collection after Daratumumab, Bortezomib, Thalidomide, and Dexamethasone versus Bortezomib, Cyclophosphamide, and Dexamethasone in Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2023
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  8. Impact of Clinical Parameters and Induction Regimens on Peripheral Blood Stem-Cell Mobilization and Collection in Multiple Myeloma Patients.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2023
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  9. Immunomodulatory drugs alleviate l-dopa-induced dyskinesia in a rat model of Parkinson's disease.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2019
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  16. Treatment with Thalidomide and Cyclophosphamide (TCID) is Superior to Vincristine (VID) and to Vinorelbine (VRID) Regimens in Patients with Refractory or Recurrent Multiple Myeloma.Indian journal of hematology & blood transfusion : an official journal of Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

I BreitkreutzDepartment of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. Iris_Breitkreutz@dfci.harvard.edu
H M Lokhorst
M S Raab
B van der Holt
F W Cremer
D Herrmann
A Glasmacher
I G H Schmidt-Wolf
I W Blau
H Martin
H Salwender
A Haenel
P Sonneveld
H Goldschmidt
Heidelberg University · DEErasmus MC · NLUniversity of Bonn · DEGoethe University Frankfurt · DEKlinikum Chemnitz · DETotal (Germany) · DEUniversity Medical Center Utrecht · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a phase III randomized, multicenter study, the German-speaking Myeloma-Multicenter Group (GMMG) and the Dutch-Belgian Hemato-Oncology Cooperative Group (HOVON) group investigated the influence of thalidomide (Thal) on the outcome of peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) collection in multiple myeloma (MM) before peripheral autologous blood stem cell transplantation (ABSCT). We analyzed the data of 398 myeloma patients after induction with Thal, doxorubicin and dexamethasone (TAD) in comparison with vincristine, doxorubicin and dexamethasone (VAD) followed by mobilization with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, dexamethasone (CAD) and PBSC collection. Within both the study groups, patients treated with TAD showed to collect significantly fewer CD34(+) cells compared with VAD (GMMG, TAD: median 9.8 x 10(6)/kg; range 2.0-33.6; VAD: median 10.9 x 10(6)/kg range 3.0-36.0; P=0.02) (HOVON, TAD: median 7.4 x 10(6)/kg; range 2.0-33.0; VAD: median 9.4 x 10(6)/kg; range 0.0-48.7; P=0.009). However, engraftment after peripheral autologous stem cell transplantation showed no difference between Thal and VAD groups. We conclude that Thal as a part of induction regimen is associated with better response rates (GMMG-HD3: CR/PR 79%, VAD: CR/PR 58%; HOVON-50: TAD: CR/PR 81%, VAD: CR/PR 61%), but significantly affects the yield of PBSC collection. Nevertheless, the number of total CD34(+) cells collected was sufficient for double autologous transplantation in 82% of the Thal patients, with at least 2.5 x 10(6)/kg CD34(+) cells.

Indexed as

AdultAgedAntigens, CD34Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsFemaleHematopoietic Stem Cell MobilizationHumansMaleMiddle AgedMultiple MyelomaPeripheral Blood Stem Cell TransplantationRemission InductionThalidomideTissue and Organ HarvestingTransplantation, AutologousAntigens, CD34Thalidomide

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PMID17377586
OpenAlexW2013115130

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