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Multicenter Phase II Feasibility Trial of High-Dose Tamoxifen in Patients With Refractory or Relapsed Multiple Myeloma
Affiliations of authors: Department of Clinical Hematology (DD, FN), Department of Tumor Biology (PDC, ZM, CTP, PV), Department of Medical Oncology (PP), Institut Curie, Paris, France; Department of Oncopharmacology, Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice, France (MCE, NR); Department of Clinical Hematology, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France (JMV); Department of Clinical Hematology, Centre Jean Bernard, Le Mans, France (EV); Department of Pharmacology, Centre René Huguenin, Saint-Cloud, France (SU)
Correspondence to: Didier Decaudin, MD, PhD, Service dHématologie Clinique, Institut Curie, 26 rue dUlm, 75.248 Paris CEDEX 05, France (e-mail: didier.decaudin@curie.net)
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Despite high-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation, most patients with multiple myeloma relapse and eventually die. Previous studies have suggested that multiple myeloma cells express estrogen receptors and that antiestrogens induce in vitro growth inhibition and apoptosis of tumor cells (13). We therefore conducted a phase II feasibility trial of high-dose tamoxifen in patients with relapsed or