Best responses for 445 patients after autologous stem-cell transplantation. The response categories achieved by the patients were stringent complete response (sCR; n = 109), complete response (CR; n = 37), near complete response (nCR; n = 91), very good partial response (VGPR [excluding nCR]; n = 60), partial response (PR; n = 109), stable disease (SD; n = 21), and progressive disease (PD; n = 18). The sum of percentages is slightly greater than 100 because of rounding.