Competing risk survival analysis in patients with symptomatic Waldenström macroglobulinemia: the impact of disease unrelated mortality and of rituximab-based primary therapy

• Efstathios Kastritis,
• Marie-Christine Kyrtsonis,
• Pierre Morel,
• Maria Gavriatopoulou,
• Evdoxia Hatjiharissi,
• Argirios S. Symeonidis,
• Amalia Vassou,
• Panagiotis Repousis,
• Sossana Delimpasi,
• Anastasia Sioni,
• Evrydiki Michalis,
• Michail Michael,
• Elina Vervessou,
• Michael Voulgarelis,
• Costantinos Tsatalas,
• Evangelos Terpos,
• Meletios A. Dimopoulos

Affiliations

Efstathios Kastritis

Department of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Greece

Marie-Christine Kyrtsonis

Hematology Section of the First Department of Propedeutic Internal Medicine, Laikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Greece

Pierre Morel

Service D’Hématologie Clinique et Thérapie Cellulaire CHU (University Hospital), Amiens, France

Maria Gavriatopoulou

Department of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Greece

Evdoxia Hatjiharissi

Theagenion Cancer Center, Department of Hematology, Thessaloniki, Greece

Argirios S. Symeonidis

University of Patras, Hematology Division, Patras, Greece

Amalia Vassou

University of Ioannina, Hematology Division, Ioannina, Greece

Panagiotis Repousis

Peripheral General Anticancer Hospital-Metaxa, Department of Hematology, Piraeus, Greece

Sossana Delimpasi

Evangelismos Hospital, Hematology Department, Athens, Attica, Greece

Anastasia Sioni

St Savvas Oncology Hospital, Hematology Division, Athens, Greece

Evrydiki Michalis

G.Gennimatas General Hospital, Department of Hematology, Athens, Greece

Michail Michael

Department of Haematology, Nicosia General Hospital, Cyprus, Greece

Elina Vervessou

Henry Dunant Hospital, Hematology Division, Athens, Greece

Michael Voulgarelis

Department of Pathophysiology, National And Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Greece

Costantinos Tsatalas

Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Evangelos Terpos

Department of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Greece

Meletios A. Dimopoulos

Department of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Greece