When newly diagnosed mm patients comment on any of the forums the most common theme is that their oncologist rushes them into a bone marrow transplant. There is so much positive information coming out these days about "novel therapies" or combinations of conventional therapies like thalidomide, velcade, revlimid and dexamethazone- the oncologist quoted below is going on record to the IMF about this very thing.

Shortly after I posted the excerpt below to the acor list, Alex Maas sent me this quote from Dr. Berenson on bmts.