Adrian Mosquera Orgueira, MD, PhD1*, Marta Sonia Gonzalez Perez2*, Mattia D'Agostino, MD3*, David A. Cairns, PhD4*, Alessandra Larocca, MD5, Juan José Lahuerta Palacios, MD, PhD6*, Ruth Wester, MD, PhD7*, Uta Bertsch, MD8,9*, Anders Waage, MD, PhD10*, Elena Zamagni, MD11,12*, Carlos Pérez Míguez13*, Niels W.C.J. Van De Donk, MD14, Graham Jackson, MD15*, Davide Crucitti13*, Hans Salwender, MD16*, Daniele Dall'Olio, PhD17*, Gastone Castellani, PhD18*, Manuel Piñeiro Fiel13*, Sara Bringhen, MD, PhD19, Sonja Zweegman, MD, PhD20, Michele Cavo, MD21,22*, Jesus Maria Hernandez Rivas, MD23, Benedetto Bruno, MD, PhD3, Gordon Cook, PhD, DSc4*, Martin F Kaiser, MD24, Hartmut Goldschmidt, MD8,25, Pieter Sonneveld, MD7, Jesús F. San-Miguel, MD, PhD26, Mario Boccadoro, MD27 and Maria- Victoria Mateos28
1University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, Department of Hematology, IDIS, SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain
2University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
3Division of Hematology, AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, University of Torino and Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
4Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit, Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
5Division of Hematology, Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
6Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, CIBER-ONC CB16/12/00369, CNIO, Madrid, Spain
7Department of Hematology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
8National Center for Tumor Diseases Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
9Department of Medicine V, Heidelberg Myeloma Center, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
10Institute of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Research Department, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
11"Seràgnoli" Institute of Hematology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
12Istituto di Ematologia “Seràgnoli”, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
13University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, Department of Hematology, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
14Cancer Center Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
15University of Newcastle, Department of Haematology, Newcastle, United Kingdom
16Asklepios Tumorzentrum Hamburg, Asklepios Hospital Hamburg Altona and St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg, Germany
17University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
18Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
19Citta' Della Salute E Della Scienza, Torino, To, Italy
20Department of Hematology, Amsterdam UMC, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
21IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Hematology Institute “L. e A. Seràgnoli”, Bologna, Italy
22Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
23Department of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), University of Salamanca – Cancer Research Center of Salamanca (IBMCC, USAL-CSIG), Salamanca, Spain
24The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom and the Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
25Internal Medicine V, Hematology, Oncology and Rheumatology, GMMG Studygroup, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
26Clínica Universidad de Navarra, CIMA, IDISNA, CIBER-ONC (CB16/12/00369), Pamplona, Spain
27European Myeloma Network, EMN, Italy
28University Hospital of Salamanca/IBSAL/CIC/CIBERONC, Salamanca, Spain