Are We Starting to Cure Myeloma?

A paper recently published in the medical journal Blood claims its authors are “Curing myeloma at last: defining criteria and providing the evidence,” as the paper's title states. In his blog this week, IMF Chairman Dr. Brian Durie cautions that this is a bold statement. The paper provides a statistical model to predict myeloma patients' outcomes. Dr. Durie writes, “Achieving and documenting true cure still demands follow-up of individual patients and cannot be predicted by a computer model.”
Source: International Myeloma Foundation - Category: Hematology Source Type: news