Isatuximab, Bortezomib, Lenalidomide, and Dexamethasone for Multiple Myeloma

Thierry Facon1, Meletios-Athanasios Dimopoulos1, Xavier P Leleu1

  • 1From the Department of Hematology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Lille, University of Lille, Lille (T.F., S. Manier), the French National Academy of Medicine (T.F.), and the Department of Hematology, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Sorbonne University and INSERM (M.M.), Paris, Service d'Hématologie et Thérapie Cellulaire, CHU and Centre d'Investigation Clinique INSERM Unité 1402, Poitiers (X.P.L.), the Department of Hematology, University Hospital Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes (P.M.), and Sanofi, Research and Development, Vitry-sur-Seine (C.O., M.-F.B., S. Macé, C.B.) - all in France; the Plasma Cell Dyscrasia Unit, Department of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens (M.-A.D.); the Department of Hematology, Ankara University, and the Istinye University Ankara Liv Hospital, Ankara (M.B.), and the Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul (S.K.-B.) - all in Turkey; the Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology, and Oncology, University Hospital Brno, Brno (L.P.), the Department of Hemato-Oncology, University Hospital Ostrava, and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, Ostrava (R.H.), the Department of Hemato-Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University and University Hospital Olomouc, Olomouc (J.M.), and the Charles University and General Hospital in Prague, Prague (I.S.) - all in the Czech Republic; Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China (Z.L.); the Department of Lymphoid Malignancies, Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw (J.R.-J.), and the Department of General Hematology, Copernicus Memorial Hospital, Comprehensive Cancer Center and Traumatology, Łódź (P.R.) - both in Poland; the S.P. Botkin Moscow City Clinical Hospital, Moscow (V.I.V.); the Department of Hematology, Oncology, Immunology, and Rheumatology, University Hospital of Tübingen, Tübingen (B.B.), and the Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg (H.G.) - both in Germany; the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo (T.I.); Calvary Mater Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW (W.J.), and the Illawarra Cancer Care Centre, Wollongong, NSW (G.P.) - both in Australia; IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Istituto di Ematologia "Seràgnoli," and Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (E.Z.); the Division of Hematology-Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (T.G.M.); Sanofi, Patient Safety and Pharmacovigilance, Bridgewater, NJ (D.B.); Sanofi, Cambridge, MA (Z.K.); and the Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.Z.O.).

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