Hirohiko Shibayama¹, Philippe Moreau², Meletios Dimopoulos³, Shotaro Hagiwara^4,5, Hiroshi Handa⁶, Shuji Ozaki⁷, Martina A. Sersch⁸, Mei Huang⁸, Shinsuke Iida⁹ (1.Hematol. & Oncol., Osaka Univ. Grad. Sch., Osaka, Japan, 2.Hematol., Univ. Hosp. Hotel-Dieu, Nantes, France, 3.Clin. Ther., Univ. Athens, Athens, Greece, 4.Hematol., Ctr. Hosp. Natl. Ctr. Global Health Med., Tokyo, Japan, 5.Hematol., Tokyo Women's Med. Univ., Tokyo, Japan, 6.Hematol., Gunma Univ. Grad. Sch., Maebashi, Japan, 7.Hematol., Tokushima Pref. Ctr. Hosp., Tokushima, Japan, 8.Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, USA, 9.Hematol. & Oncol., Nagoya City Univ. Grad. Sch., Nagoya, Japan)

Yu Abe, Kanji Miyazaki, Kota Sato, Yumiko Yoshiki, Kiyoshi Okazuka, Nobuhiro Tsukada, Tadao Ishida, Kenshi Suzuki (Department of hematology, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan)

Chihiro Kuwabara, Yuhei Nagao, Katsuhiro Shono, Masahiro Onoda, Akira Yokota (Department of Hematology, Chiba Aoba Municipal Hospital, Chiba, Japan)

Yoshiaki Abe, Kentaro Narita, Hiroki Kobayashi, Akihiro Kitadate, Masami Takeuchi, Kosei Matsue (Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kameda Medical Center)

Noriko Nishimura¹, Anna Nishihara¹, Norihito Inoue¹, Yoshiharu Kusano¹, Yuko Mishima¹, Masahiro Yokoyama¹, Kiyohiko Hatake², Yasuhito Terui¹ (1.Hematol./Oncol., The Cancer Institute Hospital of JFCR, 2.Hematol., International University of Health and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan)

Michihide Tokuhira, Yuka Tanaka, Yasuyuki Takahashi, Yuta Kimura, Tatsuki Tomikawa, Junichi Watanabe, Tomoe Anan, Morihiko Sagawa, Takayuki Tabayashi, Reiko Watanabe, Masahiro Kizaki (Department of Hematology, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Japan)