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. 2021 Feb 3;124(8):1428–1436. doi: 10.1038/s41416-020-01237-1

Table 1.

Patient characteristics, disease characteristics and prior therapies in patients with multiple myeloma in the in-house FIMM cohort.

Patient and disease characteristics by disease stagea
NDMM (n = 56) RRMM (n = 78) Total (N = 134)
Age at diagnosis, years, median (range) 64.5 (26–84) 63 (41–81) 64 (26–84)
Sex, female/male, n 26/30 30/48 56/78
Cytogenetics, n (%)
  t(11;14) 16 (28.6) 14 (17.9) 30 (22.4)
  t(4;14) 7 (12.5) 18 (23.1) 25 (18.7)
  t(14;16) 1 (1.8) 2 (2.6) 3 (2.2)
  t(14;20) 0 2 (2.6) 2 (1.5)
  del(17p) 5 (8.9) 20 (25.6) 25 (18.7)
  del(13q) 36 (64.3) 40 (51.3) 76 (56.7)
  1q gain 14 (25.0) 44 (56.4) 58 (43.3)
  Missing 0 2 (2.6) 2 (1.5)
ISS, n (%)
  1 13 (23.2) 16 (20.5) 29 (21.6)
  2 26 (46.4) 22 (28.2) 48 (35.8)
  3 10 (17.9) 16 (20.5) 26 (19.4)
  Missing 7 (12.5) 24 (30.8) 31 (23.1)
Treatment history of relapsed/refractory patients (N= 78)
Exposed, relapsed Exposed, refractory Not exposed
Prior treatment, n (%)
  Alkylating agents (MEL, CPM) 61 (78.2) 15 (19.2) 2 (2.6)
  Bortezomib 43 (55.1) 26 (33.3) 9 (11.5)
  IMiDs 29 (37.2) 33 (42.3) 16 (20.5)

CPM cyclophosphamide, FIMM Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, IMiD immunomodulatory imide drug, ISS International Staging System, MEL melphalan, NDMM newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, RRMM relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

aIf a patient provided both NDMM and RRMM samples, this patient was included in the NDMM group. If a patient provided samples at multiple relapse stages and the diagnosis sample is missing, then data from the first relapse are included in the table.