2025-08-20
Challenging the concept of functional high-risk myeloma through transcriptional and genetic profiling
2025-08-20 • Sina A. Beer, David A. Cairns, Charlotte Pawlyn, Ailsa K. Holroyd, Eugene B. Ferris, Gordon Cook, Mark T. Drayson, Kevin Boyd, Paula Proszek, Faith...
Abstract Functional high-risk (FHR) multiple myeloma (MM) is defined as an unexpected, early relapse (ER) of disease in the absence of baseline molecular or clinical risk factors (RF), making FHR MM inherently dependent on which RFs were assessed at diagnosis, and what treatment patients received. To establish the true incidence of FHR, we analyzed uniformly treated, transplant-eligible patients from the Myeloma-XI (MyXI) trial that had been profiled for the International Myeloma Society and Working Group (IMS/IMW…