Bakker, LJ
Thielen, FW
Redekop, WK
Groot, CA Uyl-de
Blommestein, HM
Article History
Received: 9 January 2023
Accepted: 16 May 2023
First Online: 29 May 2023
Declarations
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: Neither obtaining informed consent from patients nor approval by a medical ethics committee is obligatory for this type of observational studies containing no directly identifiable data (art. 9.2 sub j General Data Protection Regulation, art. 24 Dutch GDPR Implementation Act jo). Administrative permission for use of the anonymized data from the Netherlands Cancer Registry (NCR) was granted through the supervisory committee of the NCR. Administrative permission for use of the anonymized data from the Dutch Haemato-oncology Foundation for Adults in the Netherlands (HOVON) was granted by the HOVON executive board and the HOVON multiple myeloma working group. All data provided to the researchers by the NCR & HOVON was in anonymized format. This study was conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: FT reports previous consultation for AstraZeneca, Optimax Access, Dark Peak Analytics, and grants from Celgene outside the submitted work. Previous and ongoing research was or is partly funded by the CADTH (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health), the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, and the European Haematology Association. HB reports previous research grants from BMS (Celgene BV), advisory board fee from Pfizer, outside the submitted work paid to the institute; Previous and ongoing research was or is partly funded by the CADTH (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health), the Dutch Healthcare Institute, and Medical Delta. LB reports previous and ongoing research grants from the European H2020 Research Programme and the Convergence Program outside the submitted work. WR reports previous and ongoing research grants from the European H2020 Research Programme and the Convergence Program outside the submitted work. CUG reports unrestricted grants from Boehringer Ingelheim, Astellas, Sanofi, Janssen-Cilag, Bayer, Sanofi, Amgen, Merck, Gilead, Novartis, and Astra Zeneca, Roche, and grants from European Research Programmes, CADTH (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health), the Dutch Healthcare Institute, the European Haematology Association, and Dutch Ministry of Health. All grants were outside the submitted work.