Post-transplant maintenance duration? Select Faculty Commentary


Post-transplant maintenance duration?

a. When using maintenance therapy after transplant, what duration of maintenance treatment do you use for a patient with standard-risk MM?

b. Maintenance duration in same patient with high-risk disease?

 

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