ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2026
Clinical Practice of Treatment Switch in Transplant-eligible Patients with Multiple Myeloma: An Exploratory Retrospective Analysis.
Article in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
12 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objective In the real-world clinical setting of transplant-eligible patients with multiple myeloma (MM), a certain proportion of patients switch from induction therapy to other regimens because of insufficient response or adverse events. However, the prognostic benefits of these changes remain unclear. This retrospective study investigated the impact of pre-transplant induction therapy switches on the prognosis. Methods We analyzed the treatment course, patient background, risk classification, and post-transplantation event-free survival (EFS) of 35 patients who achieved partial response or better with triplet therapy and underwent autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) at our institution between January 2017 and July 2023. Results Induction therapy included VRd therapy in 11 patients and switching therapy in 20 patients (7 due to intolerance and 13 due to insufficient treatment effects). Among the 13 patients who switched treatment due to insufficient treatment effects, 10 showed an improved response, leading to a trend towards a better EFS. Nevertheless, high-risk chromosomal abnormalities, particularly t (4;14), were associated with a significantly poorer EFS, regardless of the treatment received. Conclusion Even with a response-guided induction treatment switch, maintaining long-term remission after ASCT in high-risk patients remains challenging. A careful risk assessment using fluorescence in situ hybridization or a genomic analysis may improve the prognosis of patients with MM in the future.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.