Circulating tumor cells as a biomarker for response to therapy in multiple myeloma patients treated within the GMMG-MM5 trial

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine V, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ² Myeloma Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA.
• ³ Division of Biostatistics, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ⁴ National Center for Tumor Diseases Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ⁵ Janssen-Cilag, Neuss, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of Internal Medicine III, Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH, Chemnitz, Germany.
• ⁷ Department of Hematology/Oncology, Asklepios Klinik Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
• ⁸ Department of Internal Medicine II-Hematology and Oncology, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
• ⁹ Department of Hematology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Department of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Community Hospital Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
• ¹¹ Medical Clinic III Hematology and Oncology, Städt. Krankenhaus Siloah, Hannover, Germany.
• ¹² 2nd Medical Department, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Charité, Carl-Thiem-Klinikum Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany.
• ¹³ Hematology, Oncology and Gastroenterology, Maria-Hilf-Krankenhaus, Mönchengladbach, Germany.
• ¹⁴ 3rd Medical Department, Haematology and Oncology, Klinikum Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
• ¹⁵ University Cancer Center Leipzig (UCCL), University Medical Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Medical Clinic A, Klinikum der Stadt Ludwigshafen gGmbH, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany.
• ¹⁷ Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Essen-Werden gGmbH, Essen, Germany.
• ¹⁸ Medical Clinic III Hematology and Oncology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁹ Institute of Human Genetics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ²⁰ Polyphor Ltd, Allschwil, Switzerland.
• ²¹ inVentiv Health, Boston, MA, USA.
• ²² Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology, German Red Cross Blood Service Baden-Württemberg-Hessen, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.