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Does multiple myeloma become more radioresistant post transplant?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Cincinnati
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Anecdotally, I had a recent myeloma patient who developed progressive chest wall disease after ASCT and numerous prior rounds of therapy. I gave him 8 Gy in one fraction to two chest wall sites; one had a partial response before progressing months later, the second site progressed through RT with no...

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Medical Oncology · University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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Not that I've heard or seen, but would love to hear more about a case you may have had where RT didn't work well for a lesion in someone who had undergone ASCT for MM. I will say that I do think ASCT with high-dose melphalan works better systemically against extramedullary disease (EMD) than many of...

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