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UK Treatment Guidelines - Myeloma


Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of multiple myeloma - 2005

Produced by:  Guidelines Working Group of the UK Myeloma Forum (UKMF) and the Nordic Myeloma Study Group (NMSG).

Purpose: Latest guidance on the diagnosis and management of multiple myeloma including new sections on imaging and the management of skeletal disease, developments in disease classification and new therapeutic approaches such as thalidomide, bortezomib and reduced intensity allogeneic transplantation.

Can be obtained from: These guidelines are available electronically from the British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH) website.

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Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of solitary plasmacytoma of bone and solitary extramedullary plasmacytoma - UKMF, 2004

Produced by:  UK Myeloma Forum on behalf of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH), 2004.

Purpose:  To set out the key areas of strategy in the effective clinical management of myeloma.

Can be obtained from:  http://www.ukmf.org.uk/ or British Journal of Haematology 124, 2004, pp717-726 or The British Society for Haematology, 100 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF  Tel: 020 8643 7305

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Thalidomide in multiple myeloma: Current status and future prospects - BSH - 2003

Produced by: British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH), a sub-committee of the British Society for Haematology (BSH), 2003 

Purpose: To provide haematologists with up to date advice on the diagnosis and treatment of haematological disease by the production of evidence based guidelines.

Can be obtained from: British Journal of Haematology 2003, v120, p18-26 or The British Society for Haematology, 100 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF  Tel: 020 8643 7305

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Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of multiple myeloma – UK Myeloma Forum – 2001

Produced by:  UK Myeloma Forum on behalf of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH), 2001.

Purpose:  To set out the key areas of strategy in the effective clinical management of myeloma.

Can be obtained from:  www.ukmf.org.uk/ or British Journal of Haematology 115, 2001, pp522-40 or The British Society for Haematology, 100 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF  Tel: 020 8643 7305

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Guidelines on the provision of facilities for the care of adult patients with haematological malignancies. (including leukaemia, lymphoma and severe bone marrow failure.) – BCSH - 1995

Produced by: The British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH) is a sub-committee of the British Society for Haematology (BSH).

Purpose: To provide haematologists with up to date advice on the diagnosis and treatment of haematological disease by the production of evidence based guidelines.

Can be obtained from: Clinical and Laboratory Haematology 1995; v17, p3-10 or The British Society for Haematology, 100 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF  Tel: 020 8643 7305

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Content last reviewed: 20 October 2005
Page last modified: 02 May 2007

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