For young patients with smoldering multiple myeloma who wish to be treated with lenalidomide, how do you go about harvesting their cells for an autologous transplant?

I have serious reservations with treating smoldering myeloma with lenalidomide and in general, discourage it. That is likely a discussion for another day, but my thoughts on this have been summarized here.

In general, we are able to secure permission for 'collect and store', and so I would prefer t...

We are learning more about the natural history of SMM. Certainly for an SMM patient that is classified as "high risk", I would consider lenalidomide treatment if none of the many trials were available for this individual. In our own practice, we try exceedingly hard not to treat SMM patients off tri...