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Francesca Gay, MD, on Multiple Myeloma: Carfilzomib/Lenalidomide/Dexamethasone With or Without Transplantation

2019 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Francesca Gay, MD, of GIMEMA, European Myeloma Network, discusses the results of the FORTE trial on the efficacy of carfilzomib/lenalidomide/dexamethasone with or without autologous stem cell transplantation according to risk status in newly diagnosed disease (Abstract 8002).

 



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