Michele Cavo1*, Francesca Gay, MD2, Meral Beksac, MD3, Meletios A Dimopoulos4, Lucia Pantani, MD, PhD1*, Maria Teresa Petrucci5, Luca Dozza, MSc1*, Bronno Van Der Holt, PhD6*, Sonja Zweegman, MD, PhD7, Elena Zamagni, MD1*, Giuseppe A. Palumbo, MD, PhD8*, Francesca Patriarca9*, Monica Galli10*, Vladimir Maisnar, MD, PhD, MBA11*, Markus Hansson, MD12*, Angelo Belotti, MD13*, Ludek Pour, MD14*, Paula F Ypma, MD, PhD15*, Mariella Grasso16*, Sandra Croockewit, MD17*, Massimo Offidani18, Renato Zambello19*, Anna Marina Liberati, MD20, Niels Frost Andersen, MD, PhD21*, Annemiek Broyl, MD, PhD22*, Rossella Troia, PharmD2*, Pellegrino Musto23, Heinz Ludwig, MD24, Anna Maria Morelli, M.D25*, Roman Hajek, MD26, Christoph Driessen, MD27, Anders Waage, MD, PhD28, Peter Gimsing, DO, PhD29*, Ulf-Henrik Mellqvist, MD, PhD30, Thilo Zander, MD31*, Mario Boccadoro2 and Pieter Sonneveld, MD, PhD32
1Seràgnoli Institute of Hematology, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Experimental Medicine, Bologna University School of Medicine, S. Orsola Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy
2Myeloma Unit, Division of Hematology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
3Ankara University School of Medicine Department of Hematology, Ankara, Turkey
4University of Athens School of Medicine, KIFISIA, Greece
55Hematology, Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliera Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
6HOVON Data Center, Department of Hematology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
7Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Hematology, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
8Department of Medical, Surgical and Advanced Technology "G.F. Ingrassia", University of Catania, Catania, Italy
9Clinical Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Centre, S Maria della Misericordia University Hospital, DAME, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
10Hematology, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy
114th Department of Medicine - Haematology, Charles University Hospital, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
12Department of Hematology, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
13Hematology, SC Ematologia e Dipartimento di Oncologia Clinica, A.O. Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
14University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
15Haga Hospital, The Hague, Netherlands
16Divisione di Ematologia, Ospedale Civico Santa Croce e Carle, Cuneo, ITA
17Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, NLD
1818Clinica di Ematologia, AOU Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona, Ancona, Italy
19Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Padova, Italy
20Università degli Studi di Perugia, Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria di Terni, Terni, Italy
21Department of Hematology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
22Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
23Department of Emergency and Organ Transplant, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
24Wilhelminen Cancer Research Institute, Vienna, Austria
25Clinical Hematology, Department of Hematology, Transfusion Medicine and Biotechnology, “Spirito Santo” Civic Hospital, Pescara, Italy
26Department of Haematooncology, University Hospital Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
27Clinics for Medical Oncology and Haematology, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
28Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
29Department of Hematology, Rikshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
30Department of Hematology, South Älvsborg Hospital, Boras, Sweden
31Medical Oncology, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern, Switzerland
32Department of Hematology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands