TY - JOUR
T1 - High levels of serum TIMP-1 correlate with advanced disease and predict for poor survival in patients with multiple myeloma treated with novel agents
AU - Terpos, Evangelos
AU - Dimopoulos, Meletios A.
AU - Shrivastava, Vikas
AU - Leitzel, Kim
AU - Christoulas, Dimitrios
AU - Migkou, Magdalini
AU - Gavriatopoulou, Maria
AU - Anargyrou, Konstantinos
AU - Hamer, Peter
AU - Kastritis, Efstathios
AU - Carney, Walter
AU - Lipton, Allan
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) was evaluated in the pre-treatment serum of 55 newly diagnosed patients with symptomatic myeloma. TIMP-1 was elevated in 47% of patients and correlated with lytic bone disease and increased bone resorption. Importantly, TIMP-1 correlated with ISS stage (p=0.005) and was an independent prognostic covariate for survival [HR: 1.003 (1-1.006), p=0.004] in these patients who were all treated with novel agents (bortezomib and/or IMiDs) during their disease course. Our study provides evidence that pre-treatment serum TIMP-1 is associated with advanced myeloma and suggests the further evaluation of this molecule to better determine its prognostic potential in MM.
AB - Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) was evaluated in the pre-treatment serum of 55 newly diagnosed patients with symptomatic myeloma. TIMP-1 was elevated in 47% of patients and correlated with lytic bone disease and increased bone resorption. Importantly, TIMP-1 correlated with ISS stage (p=0.005) and was an independent prognostic covariate for survival [HR: 1.003 (1-1.006), p=0.004] in these patients who were all treated with novel agents (bortezomib and/or IMiDs) during their disease course. Our study provides evidence that pre-treatment serum TIMP-1 is associated with advanced myeloma and suggests the further evaluation of this molecule to better determine its prognostic potential in MM.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.leukres.2009.08.035
DO - 10.1016/j.leukres.2009.08.035
M3 - Article
C2 - 19781774
AN - SCOPUS:77649187602
SN - 0145-2126
VL - 34
SP - 399
EP - 402
JO - Leukemia Research
JF - Leukemia Research
IS - 3
ER -