[Results with the use of the M-2 protocol in plasmacytoma]

99 patients with multiple myeloma were treated over a period of 6 1/2 years; 62 of these were initially treated with vincristine, carmustine, cyclophosphamide, melphalan and prednisone: M 2-Protocol. Response to this therapy was assessed after three therapy cycles had been completed, which had been given at intervals of 5-6 weeks. In patients responding to the therapy, treatment was continued until a maximum regression of the paraproteins was achieved. By the end of May 1985, the data of 52 patients could be evaluated, in 31 (60%) of whom remission was observed. Median survival time of all patients was 27 months. In 18 patients with "complete" remission the median has not yet been reached after 40 months. In 13 patients with partial remission, the median survival time was 36 months. In patients with complete remission, the median remission period was 26.5 months, in patients with partial remission 13.9 months.